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Medicina Legal de Costa Rica

On-line version ISSN 2215-5287Print version ISSN 1409-0015

Abstract

VARGAS SANABRIA, Maikel. Miocarditis virales como causa de muerte súbita, aproximación al diagnóstico molecular en patología forense. Med. leg. Costa Rica [online]. 2013, vol.30, n.2, pp.43-50. ISSN 2215-5287.

In Costa Rica, as in the rest of the western hemisphere, sudden deaths are mainly of cardiac origin. Within this group overwhelmingly dominate those originating from ischemic heart disease; however there is no need to set aside the group of myocarditis. These diseases most often go unnoticed, but sometimes present with sudden death and this is where forensic become important. This article is a review of the myocarditis, with emphasis on the viral origin which morphologically diagnosis may be suspected, but confirmation of the same should be molecular, one of the indications of this type of study in forensic pathology.

Keywords : Myocarditis; viral myocarditis; coxsackievirus; echovirus; sudden death; forensic pathology.

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