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To review the molecular and genetic mechanisms underlying inherited ventricular tachycardia and explore their potential for clinical risk stratification and gene-specific therapies.

May 1, 2002Current Opinion in Cardiology

Genetics of ventricular tachycardia

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To review the molecular and genetic mechanisms underlying inherited ventricular tachycardia and explore their potential for clinical risk stratification and gene-specific therapies.
Narrative synthesis of findings from molecular biology and functional studies on familial inherited arrhythmias.
Evaluation of channelopathies in polymorphic ventricular tachycardias compared with non-Mendelian monomorphic ventricular tachycardias.
Transmembrane and intracellular ion channel mutations are primary drivers of polymorphic ventricular tachycardia and sudden death in catecholaminergic ventricular tachycardia, long QT syndrome, and Brugada syndrome.
Monomorphic idiopathic ventricular tachycardias lack Mendelian inheritance patterns, though somatic mutations are implicated in cases originating from the right ventricular outflow tract.
Molecular genetics provides a pathway toward enhanced risk stratification and the development of gene-specific treatments for affected individuals.

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May advance genetic research in inherited arrhythmias; leaves open clinical risk stratification or gene-specific therapies pending trials.

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Napolitano et al. (2002) studied this question.

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Ventricular arrhythmias

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May advance genetic research in inherited arrhythmias; leaves open clinical risk stratification or gene-specific therapies pending trials.

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