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Sudden death

Known as: DEATH SUDDEN (NOS), Death, Sudden [Disease/Finding], Sudden Death, NOS 
The abrupt cessation of all vital bodily functions, manifested by the permanent loss of total cerebral, respiratory, and cardiovascular functions.
National Institutes of Health

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Crisponi syndromeFamilial Sudden DeathSudden Cardiac Death

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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
RyR2 mutations linked to ventricular tachycardia and sudden death reduce the threshold for store-overload-induced Ca2+ release (SOICR).
The cardiac ryanodine receptor (RyR2) governs the release of Ca2+ from the sarcoplasmic reticulum, which initiates muscle… 
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Prognostic determinants of long-term survival in Japanese patients with cardiac sarcoidosis treated with prednisone.
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Apnoea and bradycardia during epileptic seizures: relation to sudden death in epilepsy.
OBJECTIVE--To record non-invasively ictal cardiorespiratory variables. METHODS--Techniques employed in polysomnography were used… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Adverse consequences of high sympathetic nervous activity in the failing human heart.
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
QT dispersion and sudden unexpected death in chronic heart failure
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Epidemiology of heart failure.
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Overweight and sudden death. Increased ventricular ectopy in cardiopathy of obesity.
Obesity has been documented to be an independent risk factor for sudden death and other cardiovascular mortality. The present… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Sickle-cell trait as a risk factor for sudden death in physical training.
Case reports of sudden death during exertion have not established an association between the sickle-cell trait (hemoglobin AS… 
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Long-term survival of patients with malignant ventricular arrhythmia treated with antiarrhythmic drugs.
Highly Cited
1978
Highly Cited
1978
QT interval prolongation as predictor of sudden death in patients with myocardial infarction.
Fifty-five patients with recent myocardial infarction and 55 healthy controls, matched for age, sex, race, height, weight… 
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