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Cardiovascular Diseases > Heart Diseases > Heart Arrest > Death, Sudden, Cardiac
Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms > Pathologic Processes > Death > Death, Sudden > Death, Sudden, Cardiac

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Death, Sudden, Cardiac  

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  • Cardiac Death, Sudden
  • Cardiac Sudden Death
  • Death, Cardiac Sudden
  • Death, Sudden Cardiac
  • Sudden Cardiac Death
  • Sudden Death, Cardiac

Note

  • do not confuse with DEATH, SUDDEN or with HEART ARREST

Scope note

  • Unexpected rapid natural death due to cardiovascular collapse within one hour of initial symptoms. It is usually caused by the worsening of existing heart diseases. The sudden onset of symptoms, such as CHEST PAIN and CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS, particularly VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA, can lead to the loss of consciousness and cardiac arrest followed by biological death. (from Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine, 7th ed., 2005)

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In other languages

  • sydänperäinen äkkikuolema

    Finnish

  • mors subita, sic descripta
  • plötslig hjärtdöd UNS
  • sydänäkkikuolema
  • tarkemmin määrittämätön äkillinen sydänkuolema
  • äkillinen sydänkuolema
  • äkillinen sydänperäinen kuolema
  • Plötslig hjärtdöd

    Swedish

  • Oväntad hjärtdöd
  • Plötsligt hjärtstopp

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D016757

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