Use of genetic testing to identify sudden cardiac death syndromes.

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Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is a leading cause of mortality worldwide. Although coronary artery disease remains the most common substrate for SCD, primary cardiac genetic diseases, presenting with or without structural heart abnormalities, play a significant role. In the last 30 years, the study of large family pedigrees allowed the discovery of causative genes unveiling the genetic basis of diseases such as...

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• Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia
• Brugada Syndrome
• Cardiomyopathy, Dilated
• Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic
• Death, Sudden, Cardiac