Editor—It was interesting to read Staikou and colleagues' 1 excellent review of Perioperative management of hereditary arrhythmogenic syndromes. This group of disorders seems to have previously been under represented in mainstream anaesthetic literature. The collective incidence of the group of disorders that are described means that all consultant anaesthetists will have anaesthetized a number...

"... . any classification is necessarily incomplete and acts as a bridge between complete ignorance and total understanding...." (Goodwin JF: The frontiers of cardiomyopathy, Br Heart J 1982;48:1-18) nhe conditions we now call cardiomyopathies were regarded as a diversity of "uncommon noncoronary myocardial diseases" in the 1950s.' Goodwin and colleagues2 defined cardiomyopathies as "4primary h...

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Cardiovascular diseases and, among them, channelopathies and cardiomyopathies are a major cause of death worldwide. The molecular and genetic defects underlying these cardiac disorders are complex, leading to a large range of structural and functional heart phenotypes. Identification of molecular and functional mechanisms disrupted by mutations causing channelopathies and cardiomyopathies is es...

Andrew Maslow MD Department of Anesthesiology Rhode Island Hospital, Providence Rhode Island Introduction Cardiomyopathy is generally defined as a “disease of the myocardium associated with cardiac dysfunction”. 1 Primary cardiomyopathies are divided into three major classifications: a) dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), b) hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), and c) restrictive (or infiltrative) card...