Sudden cardiac death due to acute right heart failure in a patient with arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia and acute myocardial infarction.

A 40-year-old patient with toothache and shoulder pain for 10 days died without former known history of cardiac arrhythmias or myocardial infarction (MI) on sleep-related sudden cardiac death (SCD). The autopsy did not reveal signs for traumatic violence or intoxications nor for acute/chronic infections particularly of the upper aerodigestive tract. Furthermore, no aspects of endo-/myocarditis …