Abstract:In Europe, 350,000 people die suddenly and unexpectedly every year. The majority of sudden deaths are caused by cardiac alterations and known as sudden cardiac death (SCD). The interpretation of medicolegal findings is especially difficult in those SCDs where there is no morphological correlate and no antemortem electrocardiograms or relevant medical history are available. The Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome, in which an accessory electrical conduction pathway exists between the atrium and the ventricle i… Show more
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