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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: BMJ
سال: 1953
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.1.4812.704