Sudden cardiac death and cardiac sodium channel diseases

• Main Authors: Wenzhao Wei (Author), Ying Fang (Author), Nan Zhou (Author), Qiuping Wu (Author), Qianhao Zhao (Author), Jianding Cheng (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Sudden cardiac death (SCD), accounting for a substantial part of the forensic autopsy, is a leading cause of mortality worldwide. Lethal arrhythmia due to sodium channel diseases is recognized as one of the most prevalent etiologies of SCD. In these disorders, defective cardiomyocytes, including the...