A member asked:

Is it possible to have a genetic cardiac defect leading to ventricular arrhythmia/sudden death ... even with no family history of any heart defect?

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Dr. Ira Friedlander answered

Specializes in Cardiac Electrophysiology

Yes: It is possible for all of your family to be heterozygous for an abnormality and therefore asymptomatic and you are homozygous and at risk. It is unlikely that you would have a problem of this nature and not have had serious symptoms or diagnostic evidence by the time you were 20. You need to get control of your anxiety. You have a normal echo and a loop recorder in place. Take your Xanax (alprazolam) and chill

Answered 1/15/2017

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