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An updated approach to sudden cardiac death, the AECVP perspective

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  1. University Center of Legal Medicine Lausanne - Geneva, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Katarzyna Michaud

  2. Amsterdam UMC, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Allard C. van der Wal

  3. Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Jytte Banner

  4. Department of Cardiovascular Pathology, Cardiology Clinical Academic Group, Molecular and Clinical Sciences Research Institute, St George’s Medical School, London, UK

    Mary N. Sheppard

  5. Cardiovascular Pathology Unit, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences and Public Health, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

    Cristina Basso

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Michaud, K., van der Wal, A.C., Banner, J. et al. An updated approach to sudden cardiac death, the AECVP perspective. Int J Legal Med 135, 1555–1557 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-021-02551-w

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