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Advances in cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR), speckle-tracking strain echocardiography, and epicardial electroanatomical mapping have revealed previously unrecognized electromechanical and structural abnormalities in these conditions. In BrS, right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) fibrosis, connexin-43 downregulation, and progressive structural remodeling support the concept of a concealed subepicardial substrate. In LQTS, prolonged contraction duration, mechanical dispersion, and diastolic dysfunction represent an electromechanical phenotype beyond QT prolongation, and preliminary evidence of a right ventricular epicardial substrate has been reported. CPVT and SQTS largely preserve the classical electrical disease model, though limited CMR data suggest possible structural overlap in specific CPVT genotypes. 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