Medical researchers have produced comprehensive guidelines on the use of genetic testing in the clinical management of inherited heart rhythm disorders. The Canadian Cardiovascular Society and ...

When it comes to genetic testing for cardiomyopathy and heart arrhythmias, the bigger the test panel, the better, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study. In fact, the combined testing approach ...

From these positive results, 10.9% of the evaluable patients would have been missed had they only had a condition-specific panel, rather than the combined arrhythmia and myopathy genetic test.

Hereditary arrhythmia syndromes are rare, but early diagnosis can markedly reduce the risk of sudden cardiac death. This is the more important because those affected are often young, ...