Sudden heart death and malignant arrhythmes: scale of adults with congenital heart defects

Abstrac: A key component of recognizing sudden cardiac death (SCD) risk in the adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) patient is the recognition of heart failure risk for each physiology. The risk of SCD is an accrued phenomenon, representing the influences of anatomy, genetics, surgical and catheter interventions, and long-term sequelae of residual hemodynamic issues. These all lead to a substrate for tachyarrhythmia