Sudden unexplained death in the young - a genetic approach to non-structural cardiac defects
HMJ-Hamdan Medical Journal. 2012; 5 (3): 373-374
in English
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ABSTRACT
Sudden unexpected death syndrome [SUDS] is the abrupt, unexpected natural death of an apparently healthy individual. In many cases, the cause of SUDS in young people is a genetic heart disorder. These disorders may be structural abnormalities, which are responsible for a large majority of cases, or arrhythmogenic abnormalities, which account for only a small minority of cases [e.g. long QT syndrome, Burgada syndrome and catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia]. Mutations in the genes responsible for these arrhythmogenic abnormalities as well as modes of inheritance and clinical presentations will be shortly discussed
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IMEMR (Eastern Mediterranean)
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English
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Hamdan Med. J.
Year:
2012
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