Hubert F. Baars has been a general and genetic cardiologist in the Elisabeth-Tweesteden Hospital Tilburg, The Netherlands, for over 20 years. He has a particular interest in hereditary heart diseases and founded the Brabant outpatient clinic for cardiogenetics. At present he is the director of the DNA clinic in the Netherlands, a chain of outpatient clinics for cardiogenetics. In addition he is a consultant cardiologist at the OLVG Hospital in Amsterdam.

Pieter A. F. M. Doevendans completed his training as a cardiologist in Maastricht. In 2004 he was appointed Professor of Translational Cardiology in the UMC Utrecht, the Netherlands. His research focus is on cardiac failure, cardiac stem cells and cardiogenetics.

Represents a practical cardiac genetics textbook for the clinician and trainee in cardiology

Contains detailed information on disease-causing genes

Features a bench-to-bedside approach to enable readers to appreciate future developments in this discipline

Molecular Genetics.- Clinical genetics.- Differential diagnosis of cardiomyopathies.- Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.- Dilated Cardiomyopathy.- Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy.- Non-Compaction Cardiomyopathy.- Hereditary neuromuscular diseases and cardiac involvement.- Fabry disease.- Long QT Syndrome.- Brugada Syndrome.- Short QT Syndrome.- Cathecholaminergic Polymorphic VT.- Sudden death and Idiopathic Ventricular Fibrillation.- Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm Dissection.- Bicuspid aortic valve.- Premature coronary artery disease.- Differential diagnosis of left ventricular hypertrophy.- Differential diagnosis of dilated cardiomyopathy.- Preimplantation genetic diagnostics.