Article
Sudden Cardiac Death in the Young.
Heart, lung & circulation - 1 Apr 2020
Bagnall Richard D, Singer Emma S, Tfelt-Hansen Jacob
Abstract excerpt
Sudden cardiac death (SCD) of a young person is a devastating and tragic ultimate outcome of a collection of cardiac disorders. The death often occurs in people who were thought to be well, by definition is sudden, can occur without prior warning symptoms, and is often the first presentation of an underlying genetic heart disease. Many of the genetic heart diseases are caused by single genetic variants that have...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Death, Sudden, Cardiac
- Family
- Female
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genetic Testing
- Heart Diseases
- Humans
- Male
