Clinical Cardiogenetics

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.

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.Arjan C Houweling is a clinical geneticist at the VU Medical Center in Amsterdam. He has been working in the field of cardiogenetics since 2007. His research in the field of cardiogenetics has been mainly focused on genetic aspects of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension and on the genetic aspects of aortic disease.


J. Peter van Tintelen is clinical geneticist and head of the department of Genetics at the UMC Utrecht, the Netherlands. His research focuses on identifying novel genes and mutations, early detection and understanding clinical variability in inherited cardiac diseases. In 2019 he was appointed Professor of Cardiogenetics.