Sudden Cardiac Death in Young Adults : 3 cases.
- Author:
Gil Ro HAN
1
;
Youn Sin KIM
;
Juck Joon HWANG
Author Information
1. Department of Legal Medicine, College of Medicine, Korea University, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- MeSH:
Adult;
Aneurysm;
Aneurysm, Dissecting;
Aorta;
Autopsy;
Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic;
Cardiovascular Diseases;
Coronary Disease;
Death, Sudden;
Death, Sudden, Cardiac*;
Diagnosis;
Humans;
Male;
Sinus of Valsalva;
Young Adult*
- From:Korean Journal of Legal Medicine
1998;22(1):74-78
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
For 6 months, we experienced 3 cases of unexpected sudden cardiac death unrelated with coronary disease, from 43 cases of forensic autopsy. Diagnosis of each case is aneurysm of Valsalva sinus, dissecting aneurysm of aorta and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, respectively. All of them are young adult male under 30 years old. They had never recognized their disease before their death and they were found dead in the morning. These are very rare cardiovascular disease and are related with sudden death. So we report 3 cases of sudden cardiac death with review of articles.
