Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndromes (SADS) are genetic heart conditions that can cause sudden death in young, apparently healthy, people. These conditions can be treated and deaths can be prevented.
Warning Signs of SADS
Charitable Organizations |
Location | Est. |
Services |
SADS.org |
Utah, USA | 1991 |
The patient and family support program provides access to information, resources, research and support to patients’ and families’ who are dealing with genetic conditions that cause sudden cardiac death in the young or who have lost a loved one to sudden unexplained death. |
The Family Heart Screening Clinic |
Dublin | 2007 |
We perform clinical screening evaluations on persons who may be at risk of having an inherited cardiac disease. These people may have a family history of sudden cardiac death or SADS, or may have a living family member with an inherited cardiac disease. |
The Irish Heart Foundation |
Dublin | 1966 |
We Campaign to influence Government policy in order to improve care for patients and prevent premature deaths. |
Croi Heart & Stroke |
Galway | 1985 |
The centre is dedicated to the prevention of, and recovery from, cardiovascular disease as well as the promotion of health and wellbeing. |
Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndromes (SADS) are genetic heart conditions that can cause sudden death in young, apparently healthy, people. These conditions can be treated and deaths can be prevented.
Warning Signs of SADS
Because SADS condition are passed down from parent to child, each child of an affected parent has a 50% chance of inheriting the condition. It is estimated that over half of the 4,000 SADS deaths each year of children, teens, or young adults have one of the top two warning signs: 1) family history – of a SADS diagnosis or sudden unexplained death (usually undiagnosed and untreated) of a family member, or 2) fainting.
SADS conditions occur because the electrical system of the heart is not working properly, so that the heart beats with an abnormal rhythm.
Other SADS related conditions may include malformations of the heart muscle. A dysplasia (misplaced) or cardiomyopathy (thickening) of the heart muscle can be related to Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia/Cardiomyopathy (ARVD/C), hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), or Dilated Cardiomyopathy (DM). These conditions can also cause sudden cardiac arrest in the young.
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