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Effect of change in posture and exercise on repolarization in patients with long QT syndrome with HERG channel mutations.
The Canadian journal of cardiology - 1 Jan 2005
Walker Bruce D, Krahn Andrew D, Klein George J, Skanes Allan C, Yee Raymond, Wang Jian, Hegele Robert A
Abstract excerpt
INTRODUCTION: Congenital long QT syndrome (LQTS) is characterized by syncope and cardiac arrest, often in association with exercise or sudden arousal. It was hypothesized that patients with LQTS with human ether-a-go-go-related gene (HERG) mutations (LQT2) have an abnormal QT adaptation to changes in heart rate induced by exercise and that such abnormalities may be ameliorated by treatment with...
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