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Sudden unexpected death at all ages may be the first manifestation of an undiagnosed fatty acid oxidation disorder especially in a population born before the implementation of expanded newborn screening. A simple and cost-effective biochemical method for postmortem screening is based on the concurrent analysis of acylcarnitine species by tandem mass spectrometry in postmortem blood and bile, spotted on filter paper.
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Rinaldo, P. (2017). Postmortem Investigations. In: Hoffmann, G., Zschocke, J., Nyhan, W. (eds) Inherited Metabolic Diseases. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49410-3_44
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