Targeting device therapy: genomics of sudden death.

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This article discusses the development and use of genomic predictors to define the population at risk for sudden cardiac death, which is usually defined as death from cardiac causes within an hour of symptom onset. The identification of genetic predictors of sudden death in heart failure is in its earliest stages. Mutations in ion channels have been shown to cause inherited forms of sudden death; there is,...

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