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Carturan, E., Tester, D.J., Brost, B.C., Basso, C., Thiene, G. and Ackerman, M.J. (2008) Postmortem Genetic Testing for Conventional Autopsy-negative Sudden Unexplained Death. American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 129, 391-397.
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• TITLE: Protocol of Investigation on Sudden Death at Autopsy, Including Molecular, Genetic and Toxicology Testing

  AUTHORS: Gaetano Thiene, Donata Favretto

  KEYWORDS: Family Screening, Genetics, Inheritance, Molecular Autopsy, Sudden Death, Toxicology

  JOURNAL NAME: World Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol.14 No.6, June 19, 2024

  ABSTRACT: The role of the autopsy: 1) Whether the death is ascribable to a natural or unnatural cause and when natural, if cardiac or extra-cardiac; 2) The nosology of the cardiac diseases and the mechanism of cardiac death, whether arrhythmic or mechanical; 3) If the cardiac disease is inherited, screening and counselling of the next of kin is required. About 30% of sudden deaths is ascribable to genetically determined morbid entities, mostly transmissible with the autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance, so that 50% of the first degree relatives are genetically affected (“carriers”) and exposed at risk; 4) If toxic or illicit drug abuse was involved.