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Sudden Cardiac Death in Genetic Cardiomyopathies.
Cardiac electrophysiology clinics - 1 Dec 2017
Atteya Gourg, Lampert Rachel
Abstract excerpt
Sudden cardiac death (SCD) caused by ventricular arrhythmias is common in patients with genetic cardiomyopathies (CMs) including dilated CM, hypertrophic CM, and arrhythmogenic right ventricular CM (ARVC). Phenotypic features can identify individuals at high enough risk to warrant placement of an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, although risk stratification schemes remain imperfect. Genetic testing is...
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