Importance of Dedicated Units for the Management of Patients With Inherited Arrhythmia Syndromes

Circ Genom Precis Med. 2021 Apr;14(2):e003313. doi: 10.1161/CIRCGEN.120.003313. Epub 2021 Apr 2.

Giulio Conte^{1

2}, Arthur Wilde^{3

4}, Elijah R Behr^{3

5}, Daniel Scherr⁶, Radoslaw Lenarczyk⁷, Estelle Gandjbachkh^{3

8}, Lia Crotti^{3

9

10}, Georgia Brugada-Sarquella^{3

11}, Tatjana Potpara¹²

¹ Cardiocentro Ticino Institute, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, Lugano, Switzerland (G.C.).
² Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, USI, Lugano, Switzerland (G.C.).
³ ERN GUARDHEART (A.W., E.R.B., E.G., L.C., G.B.-S.).
⁴ Department of Clinical and Experimental Cardiology, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Heart Center, the Netherlands (A.W.).
⁵ Cardiology Clinical Academic Group, St. George's, University of London & St. George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom (E.R.B.).
⁶ Division of Cardiology, Medical University of Graz, Austria (D.S.).
⁷ First Department of Cardiology & Angiology, Silesian Center for Heart Disease, Zabrze, Poland (R.L.).
⁸ Sorbonne Universités, APHP, Cardiology Inst, ICAN, Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital, Paris, France (E.G.).
⁹ Istituto Auxologico Italiano, IRCCS, Cardiomyopathy Unit, Department of Cardiovascular, Neural & Metabolic Sciences, San Luca Hospital, Milan, Italy (L.C.).
¹⁰ Istituto Auxologico Italiano, IRCCS, Center for Cardiac Arrhythmias of Genetic Origin & Laboratory of Cardiovascular Genetics, Milan, Italy (L.C.).
¹¹ Cardiovascular Inst, Hospital Clínic Pediatric Arrhythmia Unit, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu University of Barcelona, Spain (G.B.-S.).
¹² School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia. Cardiology Clinic, Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade (T.P.).

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Keywords: Brugada syndrome; arrhythmia, cardiac; genetic testing; long QT syndrome; tachycardia.

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