Demographic, Clinical and Pathological Features of Sudden Deaths due to Myocarditis: results from a State-wide Population-Based Autopsy Study

Myocarditis is an inflammatory disease of the heart that can cause sudden and unexpected death in otherwise healthy individuals. A population-based study in reported that the death certificate-based incidence of fatal myocarditis was 0.46 per 100.000 person-years and that myocarditis was recorded to cause 0.47 of in all deaths was 0.47 of 1,000 deaths in the general Finland population from 1970 to 1998 [1]. A review of all deaths from Tokyo from 1958 to 1984 reported that myocarditis was the cause of death in 0.15% of autopsy cases [2].

Source: Forensic Science International - January 2, 2017 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Liliang Li, Yang Zhang, Allen Burke, Aimin Xue, Ziqin Zhao, David Fowler, Yiwen Shen, Ling Li Source Type: research