Causes of sudden cardiac death
| Vascular disease | Myocardial infarction 2° to atherosclerotic disease (premature atherosclerosis in familial hypercholesterolaemia) |
| Ischaemia/scar-related ventricular arrhythmia | |
| Anomalous coronary arteries | |
| Coronary artery vasospasm | |
| Aortic rupture (Marfan's syndrome predominant genetic pathology) | |
| Cardiomyopathy | Dilated cardiomyopathy (including Lamin cardiomyopathies) |
| Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy | |
| Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy | |
| Myotonic dystrophy | |
| Inflammatory disorders | Myocarditis |
| Amyloidosis | |
| Sarcoidosis | |
| Valve disorders | Aortic stenosis |
| Mitral valve prolapse (rare malignant form) | |
| Arrhythmia syndromes | Brugada syndrome |
| Catecholaminergic polymorphic VT | |
| Long QT syndrome | |
| Short QT syndrome | |
| Wolff Parkinson's White syndrome | |
| Other early repolarisation (J wave) syndromes | |
| Trauma | Commotio cordis |