Utility of Post-Mortem Genetic Testing in Cases of Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome

Lahrouchi, Najim; Raju, Hariharan; M. Lodder, Elisabeth; Papatheodorou, Efstathios; S. Ware, James; Papadakis, Michael; Tadros, Rafik; Cole, Della; R. Skinner, Jonathan; Crawford, Jackie; R. Love, Donald; Jian Pua, Chee; Y. Soh, Bee; Bhalshankar, Jaydutt; Govind, Risha; Tfelt‐Hansen, Jacob; Gregers Winkel, Bo; van der Werf, Christian; D. Wijeyeratne, Yanushi; Mellor, Greg; Till, Jan; C. Cohen, Marta; Tome, Maite; Sharma, Sanjay; A.M. Wilde, Arthur; A. Cook, Stuart; R. Bezzina, Connie; N. Sheppard, Mary; R. Behr, Elijah

doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2017.02.046

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Utility of Post-Mortem Genetic Testing in Cases of Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome

Published in Journal of the American College of Cardiology • Apr 24, 2017

Authors:

Najim Lahrouchi

Hariharan Raju

Elisabeth M. Lodder

Abstract

Sudden arrhythmic death syndrome (SADS) describes a sudden death with negative autopsy and toxicological analysis. Cardiac genetic disease is a likely etiology. This study investigated the clinical utility and combined yield of post-mortem genetic testing (molecular autopsy) in cases of SADS and com...

Subject

Medicine

Genetic testing

Sudden cardiac death

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