A teen’s track collapse reveals CPVT, a hidden inherited arrhythmia; rapid CPR/AED response and family cascade screening prevent sudden cardiac arrest across generations.
|Articles|May 1, 2010
Contemporary Pediatrics, Digital Edition, May 2010
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