[Pathology of sudden cardiac death].
Sudden unexpected cardiac death generally occurs in persons with previously unrecognized heart disease. It has become evident that it occurs often enough in patients without any identifiable structural abnormality. Although mechanical cardiac function may seem normal, such patients might have certain discrete anatomic abnormalities, such as myocarditis, focal myocardial fibrosis, hypertrophy of Purkinje-like myocytes, and myocardial disarray. The pathophysiology in patients with acute myocardial infarction (atherothrombosis of the coronary arteries) was discussed.
Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Juntendo University School of Medicine.
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Kawai
D016757:Death, Sudden, Cardiac / Q000473:pathology*; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology