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​The British Inherited Cardiovascular Conditions Society (BICCS), formerly the AICC, is the national body representing healthcare professionals managing patients and their families with a range of genetic diseases, primarily affecting the heart.
 

These inherited cardiovascular conditions (ICCs) can affect:

• the heart muscle (cardiomyopathies)

• the heart’s rhythm and electrical system (ion channel disorders)

• major blood vessels (aortopathies)

• skeletal muscle as well as heart muscle (neuromuscular disorders)

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These conditions can affect all ages, can be difficult to diagnose, can run in families and can affect quality of life and sometimes be associated with serious complications including sudden death. Fortunately, the scientific community is working extremely hard to improve our understanding and our ability to treat these conditions and this field is continuously evolving.

BICCS is a membership organisation that provides a forum in which healthcare professionals can meet, learn, educate, collaborate and ultimately work towards providing the very highest level of healthcare to our patients.

This website combines both:

• useful information for the public, patients and their families

• a dedicated portal for BICCS members

 

The portal provides a unique resource of educational material, centred around our annual conferences and highlight sessions, and training resources as well as policy documents and key clinical guidelines. We would encourage any healthcare professionals involved in managing patients with ICCs or interested in learning more, to consider becoming a BICCS member. One of our key roles is to represent the healthcare community in this field at a national level, and the wider the membership, the stronger this representation becomes.

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Dr Stephen Page

President of the British Inherited Cardiovascular Conditions Society

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