Sudden natural death

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Natural death happens. It must be differentiated from other ways of dying (suicide, homicide, accidental).

A list:[1] Respiratory:

  • Anaphylaxis.
  • Asthma.
  • Pulmonary embolism.

Hemorrhagic:

  • Ruptured AAA.
  • Peptic ulcer.
  • Cerebral aneurysm.

Cerebral:

  • SUDEP (sudden unexpected death in epilepsy).

Cardiac:

  • CAD.
  • Right ventricular cardiomyopathy.
  • Arrhythmia.

Detailed cardiac:

  • CAD, hypertrophic CM.
  • ARVC.
  • DCM.
  • Lymphocytic myocarditis.
  • Floppy MV.
  • Aortic valve stenosis.
  • Congenital cardiac abnormality.
  • Coronary artery dissection.
  • Aortic dissection.
  • Arrhythmia.
    • Long QT syndrome, Brugada syndrome, short QT syndrome, catecholaminergic polymorphic VT, anomalous conduction pathways, dysplasia of nodal arteries, atrioventricular node tumour.

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