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Samuel Kaplan, MD
Children's Hospital Medical Center Cincinnati

JAMA. 1987;258(22):3252.

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To the Editor.—

Complete and accurate information on death certificates is important for the reasons given in the SPECIAL COMMUNICATION by Kircher and Anderson.¹ The example cited in case 2 deserves comment, since another scenario can be developed. Sudden death is a well-recognized event in severe aortic stenosis.² Could it be that this complication preceded the automobile accident, so that the underlying cause of death was in fact aortic stenosis? . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Edited by Drummond Rennie, MD. Senior Contributing Editor: Sharon Iverson, Assistant Editor.

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