Long QT syndrome: a preventable cause of sudden death in women.

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Long QT syndrome is a hereditary disorder of cardiac ion channels causing abnormal electrical activation of the heart and leading to life-threatening ventricular tachycardia. Syncope, ventricular tachycardia, or sudden cardiac death in the absence of structural heart disease is the typical presentation, often starting in childhood. Women are more commonly affected by both the congenital form and the drug-induced...

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