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Ambulatory electrocardiographic evidence of transmural dispersion of repolarization in patients with long-QT syndrome type 1 and 2.
Circulation - 5 Nov 2002
Viitasalo Matti, Oikarinen Lasse, Swan Heikki, Väänänen Heikki, Glatter Kathy, Laitinen Päivi J, Kontula Kimmo, Barron Hal V, Toivonen Lauri, Scheinman Melvin M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Transmural dispersion of repolarization (TDR) may be related to the genesis of torsade de pointes (TdP) in patients with the long-QT (LQT) syndrome. Experimentally, LQT2 models show increased TDR compared with LQT1, and beta-adrenergic stimulation increases TDR in both models. Clinically, LQT1 patients experience symptoms at elevated heart rates, but LQT2 patients do so at lower rates. The interval...
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