Non-atherosclerotic coronary pathology causing sudden death
Open Access
- 1 January 2007
- journal article
- case report
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Clinical Pathology
- Vol. 60 (1), 94-97
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jcp.2005.035360
Abstract
Coronary atherosclerosis is responsible for >50% of all cases of sudden death and for 90% of sudden coronary death. Four cases encountered in routine autopsy evaluation at our institute in 2004 in which non-atherosclerotic coronary pathology was responsible for sudden cardiac death are reported. The cases of a 31-year-old man with epicardial coronary arteritis, a 57-year-old man with intramyocardial vasculitis, a 45-year-old woman with spontaneous coronary dissection and a 50-year-old man with vascular fibrosis are described. Searching for non-atherosclerotic coronary disease is relevant for both the clinician and the pathologist to prevent coronary causes of sudden death going unrecognised.Keywords
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