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Sudden death in children and younger adults can be caused by potentially heritable cardiovascular disorders, and the fatal outcome is often the first symptom in apparently healthy subjects. In these cases, a careful autopsy becomes the sole diagnostic tool to guide the clinical screening of the families. The aims of the present study were (1) to assess the pathological substrate of sudden cardiac...