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.”.

DOI

10.1016/B978-0-12-809356-6.00009-5

Type

Chapter

Publication Date

2019-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Pages

133 - 152

Total pages

19

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