Downes M R, Thorne J, Tengku Khalid T N, Hassan H A, Leader M
Department of Histopathology, Beaumont Hospital, Beaumont, Dublin 9.
Ir Med J. 2010 Jun;103(6):183-4.
Sudden death is the sudden and unexpected death of an individual within 24 hours of symptom onset. The vast majority of these cases are found, at autopsy, to be due to underlying ischaemic cardiac disease. We retrospectively reviewed all adult post mortems performed at Beaumont Hospital over a decade (1999-2008). Our aim was to identify all sudden death cases (natural and accidental) and subclassify them according to age profile and organ system involved. We identified 1230 sudden death cases in the review period with 775 (63%) deaths attributable to ischaemic heart disease. The rate of sudden death remained constant over the decade with 663 (54%) deaths occurring in the first five years. Our negative autopsy rate was 2.8% corresponding to 35 cases. This is the first Irish study to retrospectively review all adult sudden deaths within a defined catchment area and analyse them as outlined above.
猝死是指个体在症状出现后24小时内突然且意外的死亡。尸检发现，这些病例中的绝大多数是由潜在的缺血性心脏病所致。我们回顾性研究了博蒙特医院在过去十年（1999 - 2008年）进行的所有成人尸检。我们的目的是识别所有猝死病例（自然死亡和意外死亡），并根据年龄分布和涉及的器官系统对其进行分类。在回顾期内，我们识别出1230例猝死病例，其中775例（63%）死亡归因于缺血性心脏病。十年间猝死率保持稳定，前五年有663例（54%）死亡。我们的阴性尸检率为2.8%，对应35例。这是爱尔兰第一项在特定集水区内回顾性研究所有成人猝死病例并按上述方法进行分析的研究。
