Table 4

Cause of sudden cardiac death according to histopathological findings

Diagnoses⩽35>35Total
Cardiomyopathy492473
Idiopathic left ventricular hypertrophy19827
Idiopathic left ventricular hypertrophy with fibrosis369
Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy9716
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy11213
Idiopathic fibrosis617
Undetermined cardiomyopathy101
Morphologically normal heart26127
Coronary artery pathology7411
Anomalous coronary artery606
Atherosclerosis033
Coronary “spasm”101
Coronary dissection011
Other cardiac pathology707
Myocarditis303
Floppy mitral valve202
Complex congenital heart disease101
Sickle cell crisis101