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Sudden cardiac death-update

Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is one of the most common causes of death worldwide with a higher frequency especially in the young. Therefore, SCD is represented frequently in forensic autopsy practice, whereupon pathological findings in the heart can explain acute death. These pathological changes may not only include myocardial infarction, coronary thrombosis, or all forms of myocarditis/endocarditis but also rare diseases such as hereditary structural or arrythmogenic anomalies, lesions of the cardiac conduction system, or primary cardiac tumours.

[Sudden cardiac death. Selected forensic aspects]

Sudden cardiac death is one of the most common causes of death and a significant number of sudden deaths occurs especially in young people. Sudden cardiac death is also frequently represented in forensic autopsy practice. In such cases pathological findings in the heart can often explain the reason for the acute death. These pathological changes include not only myocardial infarction, coronary thrombosis and all forms of myocarditis/endocarditis but also rare diseases, such as hereditary structural or arrythmogenic anomalies, lesions of the cardiac conduction system or primary cardiac tumors.