Inherited cardiac diseases

Framing

Inherited cardiac diseases span structural (hypertrophic cardiomyopathy) and primary electrical (long QT syndrome, Brugada syndrome) disorders, unified by a genetic basis and an associated risk of sudden cardiac death - making family screening and risk stratification (rather than treatment of symptoms alone) central to management across this group
Identification of an affected individual should prompt cascade family screening, given the autosomal dominant inheritance pattern typical of most of these conditions and the potential to identify and protect at-risk relatives before a sentinel event occurs

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