Cardiovascular deaths: What do the genes say?

Authors

  • B Stroh van Deventer Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa
  • L du Toit-Prinsloo New South Wales Health Pathology, Forensic and Analytical Science Service (FASS), Newcastle, Australia
  • C van Niekerk Department of Chemical Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria and National Health Laboratory Service, Pretoria, South Africa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7196/SAMJ.2022.v112i12.16801

Keywords:

Cardivascular disease

Abstract

Cardiovascular deaths: What do the genes say?

References

Zeppenfeld K, Tfelt-Hansen J, de Riva M, et al. 2022 ESC guidelines for the management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and the prevention of sudden cardiac death. Eur Heart J 2022;43(40):1-130. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehac262

Ntusi N. Cardiovascular disease and global health: A perspective from the global South. SA Heart 2020;17(2):134-139. https://doi.org/10.24170/17-2-4154

Isbister J, Semsarian C. Cardiovascular genomics and sudden cardiac death in the young. Aust J Gen Pract 2019;48(3):90-95. https://doi.org/10.31128/AJGP-09-18-4715

Landstrom AP, Kim JJ, Gelb BD, et al. Genetic testing for heritable cardiovascular diseases in pediatric patients: A scientific statement from the American Heart Association. Circ Genom Precis Med 2021;14(5):e000086. https://doi.org/10.1161/HCG.0000000000000086

RivaudMR,DelmarM,RemmeCA.Heritablearrhythmiasyndromesassociatedwithabnormalcardiac sodium channel function: Ionic and non-ionic mechanisms. Cardiovasc Res 2020;116(9):1557-1570. https://doi.org/ 10.1093/cvr/cvaa082

Pappone C, Micaglio E, Locati ET, et al. The omics of channelopathies and cardiomyopathies: What we know and how they are useful. Eur Heart J Suppl 2020;22(Suppl L):105-109. https://doi.org/10.1093/ eurheartj/suaa146

Wilde AAM, Semsarian C, Marquez MF, et al. European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA)/Heart Rhythm Society (HRS)/Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS)/Latin American Heart Rhythm Society (LAHRS) Expert Consensus Statement on the state of genetic testing for cardiac diseases. Europace 2022;24(8):1-61. https://doi.org/10.1093/europace/euac030

Downloads

Published

2022-12-01

Issue

Vol. 112 No. 12 (2022)

Section

CME

License

Copyright (c) 2022 B Stroh van Deventer, L du Toit-Prinsloo, C van Niekerk

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Licensing Information

The SAMJ is published under an Attribution-Non Commercial International Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License. Under this license, authors agree to make articles available to users, without permission or fees, for any lawful, non-commercial purpose. Users may read, copy, or re-use published content as long as the author and original place of publication are properly cited. 

Exceptions to this license model is allowed for UKRI and research funded by organisations requiring that research be published open-access without embargo, under a CC-BY licence. As per the journals archiving policy, authors are permitted to self-archive the author-accepted manuscript (AAM) in a repository. 

Publishing Rights

Authors grant the Publisher the exclusive right to publish, display, reproduce and/or distribute the Work in print and electronic format and in any medium known or hereafter developed, including for commercial use. The Author also agrees that the Publisher may retain in print or electronic format more than one copy of the Work for the purpose of preservation, security and back-up.

 

How to Cite

1.
Stroh van Deventer B, du Toit-Prinsloo L, van Niekerk C. Cardiovascular deaths: What do the genes say?. S Afr Med J [Internet]. 2022 Dec. 1 [cited 2025 Oct. 7];112(12):885. Available from: https://samajournals.co.za/index.php/samj/article/view/532