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[Myocarditis as a cause of sudden death].
To the Editor: We appreciated the outstanding review by Drs Zipes and Wellens on sudden cardiac death.1 However, the authors did not mention myocarditis as a cause of sudden death. In our experience at the Forensic Institute of Paris, myocarditis accounts for '5% of sudden, out-of-hospital cardiac deaths.2 Two patterns are common. Acute myocarditis, the first type, occurs most frequently in chi...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Circulation
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0009-7322,1524-4539
DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.103.2.e12