Table 1.

Age and Cause of Death.

N	Age at Death	Cause of Death	Hardy Scale	Time to Autopsy (in days)	Ventilation
1	24+3 weeks GA	Intrauterine fetal demise and growth retardation, placental insufficiency	3	3, 2	No
2	30+2 weeks GA	Intrauterine fetal demise, placental infarction	3	3, 2	No
3	39+3 weeks GA	Intrauterine fetal demise of unknown cause	3	0, 8	No
4	1 day	Pulmonary hypertension with alveolar-capillary dysplasia and large-vessel misalignment	0	0, 9	Yes
5	9 days	Alveolar-capillary dysplasia without misalignment	0	0, 7	Yes
6	2 months	Intracerebral hemorrhage	0	0, 8	Yes
7	5 months	Positional asphyxia	2	0, 8	No
8	7 months	Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy	3	0, 5	No
9	22 months	Myocarditis	0	0, 7	Yes
10	2 years	Intracerebral hemorrhage	0	1, 6	Yes
11	2 years	Myocarditis with gastroenteritis	3	3, 1	No
12	5 years	Rhabdomyolysis (LPIN1 mutation)	0	0, 5	Yes
13	11 years	Osteosarcoma	4	0, 6	No
14	16 years	Myocarditis	3	0, 1	No
15	18 years	Myocarditis	0	0, 5	Yes
16	23 years	Metastasized testicular seminoma	0	2, 3	Yes
17	24 years	Acute myeloid leukemia	0	0, 1	Yes
18	26 years	Drug overdose	3	1, 8	No
19	26 years	Myocarditis	3	2, 5	No
20	28 years	Drug overdose	3	1, 8	No

Abbreviation: GA: gestational age.

Hardy scale: (1) Violent and fast death (terminal phase < 10min); (2) fast death of natural causes (terminal phase estimated at < 1 hr); (3) intermediate death after a terminal phase of 1 to 24; (4) slow death after a long illness, with a terminal phase longer than 1 day; (0) ventilator case, all cases on a ventilator preceding death. (GTEx Consortium. Hardy scale description. [cited 6 Dec 2021]. Available: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/gap/cgi-in/variable.cgi?study_id=phs000424.v4.p1&phv=169092#:∼:text=Deathclassificationbasedonthe,phaseestimatedat%3C10min).