Sudden cardiac death due to long QT syndrome

• Main Authors: Jiayi Wu (Author), Wei Tang (Author), Kai Zhang (Author), Kai Li (Author), Jianwen Wang (Author), Youjia Yu (Author), Feng Chen (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Identification of sudden cardiac death (SCD) with a structurally normal heart remains an important challenge in forensic pathology. Long QT syndrome (LQTS) is known as an inherited or acquired channelopathy, which is characterized with prolonged QT interval, and is likely to cause SCD in young adult...