HRS/EHRA/APHRS expert consensus statement on the diagnosis and management of patients with inherited primary arrhythmia syndromes: document endorsed by HRS, EHRA, and APHRS in May 2013 and by ACCF, AHA, PACES, and AEPC in June 2013.

Priori SG, Wilde AA, Horie M, Cho Y, Behr ER, Berul C, Blom N, Brugada J, Chiang CE, Huikuri H, Kannankeril P, Krahn A, Leenhardt A, Moss A, Schwartz PJ, Shimizu W, Tomaselli G, Tracy C.

Heart Rhythm. 2013 Dec;10(12):1932-63. doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2013.05.014. Epub 2013 Aug 30. Review. No abstract available

HRS/EHRA Expert Consensus Statement on the State of GeneticTesting for the Channelopathies and Cardiomyopathies

This document was developed as a partnership between the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) and the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA)

Michael J. Ackerman, MD, PhD,1 Silvia G. Priori, MD, PhD,2 Stephan Willems, MD, PhD,3 Charles Berul, MD, FHRS, CCDS,4 Ramon Brugada, MD, PhD,5 Hugh Calkins, MD, FHRS, CCDS,6 A. John Camm, MD, FHRS,7 Patrick T. Ellinor, MD, PhD,8 Michael Gollob, MD,9 Robert Hamilton, MD, CCDS,10 Ray E. Hershberger, MD,11 Daniel P. Judge, MD,6,12 Hervè Le Marec, MD,13 William J. McKenna, MD,14 Eric Schulze-Bahr, MD, PhD,15 Chris Semsarian, MBBS, PhD,16 Jeffrey A. Towbin, MD,17 Hugh Watkins, MD, PhD,18 Arthur Wilde, MD, PhD,19 Christian Wolpert, MD,20 Douglas P. Zipes, MD, FHRS21

Heart Rhythm. 2011 Aug

ACC/AHA/ESC 2006 Guidelines for Management of Patients With Ventricular Arrhythmias and the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death:

A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force and the European Society of Cardiology Committee for Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Develop Guidelines for Management of Patients With Ventricular Arrhythmias and the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death): Developed in Collaboration With the European Heart Rhythm Association and the Heart  Rhythm Society

    Douglas P. Zipes, A. John Camm, Martin Borggrefe, Alfred E. Buxton, Bernard Chaitman, Martin Fromer, Gabriel     Gregoratos, George Klein, Arthur J. Moss, Robert J. Myerburg, Silvia G. Priori, Miguel A. Quinones, Dan M.     Roden,  Michael J. Silka and Cynthia Tracy

    Circulation 2006;114;e385-e484

 ACC-AHA-ESC Guidlines on VentricularArrhythmias

  Executive Summary of ACC-AHA-ESC

 AHA-ACC-ESC Pocket Guidelines
 

Ten questions regarding clinical considerations for heart rhythm allied professionals

    David J. Tester, BS, Michael J. Ackerman, MD, PhD, FACC

    From the Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Molecular Pharmacology and the Divisions of Cardiovascular
    Diseases and Pediatric Cardiology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota. 

 2005 - Heart Rhythm - LQTS Genetic Testing 10 Questions
 

Cost-effectiveness analysis of genetic testing for familial long QT syndrome in symptomatic index cases. 

    Phillips KA, Ackerman MJ, Sakowski J, Berul CI.
    Heart Rhythm. 2005 Dec;2(12):1294-300.

Abstract

Genetic testing in the long QT syndrome: development and validation of an efficient approach to genotyping in clinical practice.

     Napolitano C, Priori SG, Schwartz PJ, Bloise R, Ronchetti E, Nastoli J, Bottelli G, Cerrone M, Leonardi S.
    AMA. 2005 Dec 21;294(23):2975-80. 

Abstract 

Cardiac causes of sudden unexpected death in children and their relationship to seizures and syncope: genetic testing for cardiac electropathies.

    Ackerman MJ.
    Semin Pediatr Neurol. 2005 Mar;12(1):52-8.

Abstract

Genetic testing for risk stratification in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and long QT syndrome: fact or fiction? 

    Ackerman MJ.
    Curr Opin Cardiol. 2005 May;20(3):175-81.

Abstract