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[Prevention of sudden death in congenital long-QT syndrome].
Revista portuguesa de cardiologia : orgao oficial da Sociedade Portuguesa de Cardiologia = Portuguese journal of cardiology : an official journal of the Portuguese Society of Cardiology - 1 Jun 1999
Oliveira M, Antunes E, da Silva M N
Abstract excerpt
Congenital long QT syndrome (LQTS) is associated to an increased risk of ventricular arrhythmia, syncope and sudden cardiac death (SD). Four disease genes have been identified and different mutations described in each gene. This locus heterogenicity appears to have important functional and prognostic implications. Sympathetic imbalance has been invoked to explain an arrhythmogenic substrate. Prolonged...
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