January 1, 1993Internal MedicineOpen Access

Sudden Cardiac Death from Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Acute Idiopathic (Fiedler's) Myocarditis: Autopsy Report.

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Population

1 45-year-old man with a rapidly deteriorating heart condition who died suddenly

Design

Case_report

Follow-up

2 hours after admission

Authors

YTYoshifumi TakataTokyo Medical University KTKunihiko TeraokaSakakibara Hospital MAMasahiro AbeCanon (Japan)

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Implication

Alerts to rare HCM-myocarditis overlap in SCD; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.

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Population

1 45-year-old man with a rapidly deteriorating heart condition who died suddenly

Outcome

Autopsy findings

This case report describes a rare instance of sudden cardiac death resulting from the concurrent presence of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and acute idiopathic (Fiedler's) myocarditis.

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Takata et al. (1993) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a71bcb0febe604dd70a4201 https://doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.32.815

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Sudden Cardiac Death from Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Acute Idiopathic (Fiedler's) Myocarditis: Autopsy Report.

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Sudden Cardiac Death from Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Acute Idiopathic (Fiedler's) Myocarditis: Autopsy Report.

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