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Sudden Cardiac Death in the Young and Athletes

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Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is mostly ascribable to coronary artery disease and is due to a large spectrum of both congenital and acquired morbid entities [1–3]. Premature coronary atherosclerosis is ranking first even in young age, with peculiar features of an accelerated proliferative phenomenon [2, 4].

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Thiene, G., Corrado, D., Basso, C. (2016). Coronary Artery Disease. In: Sudden Cardiac Death in the Young and Athletes. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-5776-0_3

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