Clinical Approach to Sudden Cardiac Death Syndromes
Clinical cardiologists are encountering an important challenge in the care 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 for instance hypertrophic or dilate...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Springer London,
2010.
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| Online Access: | https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-927-5 |
Table of Contents:
- Part A: Familial diseases: (The following issues will be explained in each chapter): Clinical Description of the Disease
- Risk stratification parameters
- Therapeutic approach to the disease
- Genetic basis
- Role of genetics in diagnosis and risk stratification
- Clinical approach to the non-penetrant carrier of the disease
- Approach to the family with no mutation identified
- Approach to children
- Approach to adults beyond the age of normal presentation of the disease
- Prevention (medications to avoid, exercise limitations, etc)
- Part B: Non-familial sudden cardiac death
- Part C: Ethical-legal implications in genetic diagnosis, especially insurance and professional implications for individuals who are non-penetrant carriers.