Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Functional anatomy of the heart
  • Heart examination
  • Basic pathophysiological changes
  • Specific heart diseases and sudden death
  • Endocardial lesions and sudden death
  • Sudden cardiac death in infants and children
  • Cardiac alterations in sudden infant death (SID)
  • Sudden cardiac death and channelopathies
  • Interpretation of pathological changes in sudden death
  • Clinical techniques for anatomical and functional evaluation of the heart
  • Cardiovascular traumatic injuries
  • Cardiac surgery and forensic medicine
  • Drugs of abuse and pathology of the heart.