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Sudden Cardiac Death in the Young; Epidemiology and Cardiogenetic Evaluation of Victims and Their Relatives

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Sudden death (SD) is defined as “a nontraumatic, unexpected fatal event occurring within 1 hour after the onset of symptoms in an apparently healthy subject.” “If death is not witnessed, the definition applies when the victim was in good health 24 hours before the event” (Eur Heart J 36(41):2793–2786, 2015). The sudden deaths can be subdivided into noncardiac deaths, sudden cardiac deaths (SCD) and the sudden unexplained deaths (SUD). The latter two categories comprise the cardiac deaths due to inherited diseases and are discussed further in this chapter.

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    Anneke Hendrix

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  3. Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Utrcht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Anneke Hendrix

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Hendrix, A., Bots, M.L., Mosterd, A. (2016). Sudden Cardiac Death in the Young; Epidemiology and Cardiogenetic Evaluation of Victims and Their Relatives. In: Baars, H., Doevendans, P., Houweling, A., van Tintelen, J. (eds) Clinical Cardiogenetics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44203-7_19

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