Channelopathies in clinical medicine-cardiac arrhythmias
Ormerod JOM., Behr ER.
Inherited arrhythmia syndromes are rare, but collectively they are a major cause of loss of life in otherwise healthy young people. Several syndromes are described, and the pathogenic mechanisms and molecular genetics are increasingly well understood. Most of them affect ion currents and are termed “channelopathies.”.