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Review
. 2019 Sep 30;90(10-S):20-29.
doi: 10.23750/abm.v90i10-S.8751.

Cardiac conduction defects

Giulia Guerri  1 , Geraldo Krasi, Vincenza Precone, Stefano Paolacci, Pietro Chiurazzi, Luca Arrigoni, Bernardo Cortese, Astrit Dautaj, Matteo Bertelli
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Review

Cardiac conduction defects

Giulia Guerri et al. Acta Biomed. .

Abstract

Defects in cardiac electric impulse formation or conduction can lead to an irregular beat (arrhythmia) that can cause sudden death without any apparent cause or after stress. In the following sections, we describe the genetic disorders associated with primary cardiac conduction defects, primarily caused by mutations in ion channel genes. Primary indicates that these disorders are not caused by drugs and are not secondary to other disorders like cardiomyopathies (described in the next section).

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