TY - JOUR T1 - Non-atherosclerotic coronary pathology causing sudden death JF - Journal of Clinical Pathology JO - J Clin Pathol SP - 94 LP - 97 DO - 10.1136/jcp.2005.035360 VL - 60 IS - 1 AU - Fabio De Giorgio AU - Antonio Abbate AU - Giuseppe Vetrugno AU - Arnaldo Capelli AU - Vincenzo Arena Y1 - 2007/01/01 UR - http://jcp.bmj.com/content/60/1/94.abstract N2 - Coronary atherosclerosis is responsible for >50% of all cases of sudden death and for 90% of sudden coronary death. Four cases encountered in routine autopsy evaluation at our institute in 2004 in which non-atherosclerotic coronary pathology was responsible for sudden cardiac death are reported. The cases of a 31-year-old man with epicardial coronary arteritis, a 57-year-old man with intramyocardial vasculitis, a 45-year-old woman with spontaneous coronary dissection and a 50-year-old man with vascular fibrosis are described. Searching for non-atherosclerotic coronary disease is relevant for both the clinician and the pathologist to prevent coronary causes of sudden death going unrecognised. ER -