SUDDEN-DEATH DUE TO CARDIAC SARCOIDOSIS IN A CASE OF SUSPECTED HOMICIDE

In a case of suspected homicide death due to natural causes - cardiac death (SCD) - was found at autopsy. Despite an extensive replacement o f myocardial tissue by sarcoid granulomata there was no history of car diac dysfunction or preceding symptoms. The transmurally infiltrating granulomata and the concomitant fibrosis were predominantly confluent. They occupied vast areas within the interventricular septum and the a djacent posterior wall of the left ventricle. The only other organs in volved were mediastinal lymph nodes, which appeared macroscopically no rmal.