Strategy for clinical evaluation and screening of sudden cardiac death relatives.

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Sudden cardiac death (SCD) may be the first and final manifestation of several heart diseases. In the young, SCD is often caused by a hereditary cardiac disease. As the most frequently seen inherited cardiac diseases have an autosomal-dominant pattern of inheritance, half of the first-degree relatives are at risk of having or developing the same disease. Therefore, screening of these high-risk relatives is a...

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