Clinical Approach to Sudden Cardiac Death Syndromes

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Sudden Unexplained Death

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Sudden Unexplained Death in the Community

      • Sumeet S. Chugh, Carmen Teodorescu, Audrey Evanado, Kyndaron Reinier

      Pages 3-6

   3. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: Gene-Environment Interactions

      • Carl E. Hunt, Fern R. Hauck

      Pages 7-21

3. Arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death. The initial investigation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 24-24

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   2. Unexplained Syncope

      • Carlos A. Morillo, Víctor Expósito-García

      Pages 25-35

   3. Arrhythmias and Sudden Cardiac Death in Adult Congenital Heart Disease

      • Paul Khairy

      Pages 37-56

   4. Endurance Sport Practice and Arrhythmias

      • Eduard Guasch, Lluís Mont

      Pages 57-72

   5. Electrocardiograms Not to Miss

      • Andres Perez-Riera

      Pages 73-90

   6. Sudden Cardiac Death in Forensic Pathology

      • Antonio Oliva, Vincenzo L. Pascali

      Pages 91-110

4. Cardiac genetic syndromes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111

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   2. Genetic Studies

      • Marie-Pierre Dubé, John Rioux

      Pages 113-120

   3. The Long QT Syndrome

      • Ramon Brugada, Oscar Campuzano

      Pages 121-129

   4. Brugada Syndrome

      • Begoña Benito, Ramon Brugada, Josep Brugada, Pedro Brugada

      Pages 131-148

   5. Short QT Syndrome

      • Christian Wolpert, Christian Veltmann, Rainer Schimpf, Martin Borggrefe

      Pages 149-156

   6. Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia

      • M. Juhani Junttila, Olli Anttonen, Heikki V. Huikuri

      Pages 157-162

   7. Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy/Dysplasia

      • Michela Bevilacqua, Federico Migliore, Cristina Basso, Gaetano Thiene, Domenico Corrado

      Pages 163-171

   8. Atrial Fibrillation

      • Oscar Campuzano, Ramon Brugada

      Pages 173-178

   9. Dilated Cardiomyopathy

      • Michelle S. C. Khoo, Luisa Mestroni, Matthew R. G. Taylor

      Pages 179-190

   10. Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

       • A. J. Marian

       Pages 191-201

Clinical cardiologists are encountering an important challenge in the caring of families with inherited cardiac diseases. The majority of the inherited cardiac diseases causing sudden death express themselves at variable ages in the form of altered muscle function (i.e hypertrophic or dilated cardiomyopathy) or in the form of arrhythmias (i.e. Brugada syndrome, long QT syndrome). However, it is not uncommon that the first sign of the disease may actually be sudden cardiac death, even before the identification of clear clinical abnormalities. In this last decade, with more than 50 new disease-associated genes identified, the possibility of genetic testing has opened a new opportunity to disease diagnosis and prevention. Clinical and genetic research is continuously on-going not only to identify those at risk, but to better define their level or risk still with limited success.

• Dilatation
• Sudden Cardiac Death
• cardiovascular
• electrocardiogram
• prevention

From the reviews: “This is a comprehensive review of the sudden cardiac death syndrome. … It is appropriate for students, allied health personnel, physicians in training, and clinicians in practice. … The comprehensive genetics review, the screening of athletes, and the ‘electrocardiograms not to miss’ chapters are excellent. … clinically relevant resource on sudden cardiac death syndrome, an area currently suffering from a paucity of scientific evidence.” (Lior Shamai, Doody’s Review Service, May, 2010)

• Masonic Medical Research Laboratory, Utica, U.S.A.

  Ramon Brugada

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