Identifying and managing inherited cardiac conditions – The long and the short of it

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PRACTICE

Identifying and managing inherited cardiac conditions – The long and the short of it

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Vanessa Weenink

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The tangent method for defining the end of the T wave and calculating NORMAL: RR interval the QT interval

GENETIC MEDICINE

Cardiac conditions can be acquired or inherited. This article highlights some of the common inherited cardiac conditions and the typical steps involved in investigating these

Alice Christian and Tom Donoghue

Key points, High-risk features for an inherited cardiac condition include young age of onset, and family history of the condition and/or of sudden unexpected deat