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New mechanism contributing to drug-induced arrhythmia: rescue of a misprocessed LQT3 mutant.
Circulation - 22 Nov 2005
Liu Kai, Yang Tao, Viswanathan Prakash C, Roden Dan M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The cardiac sodium channel (SCN5A) mutation L1825P has been identified in a patient with drug-induced torsade de pointes precipitated by the IKr blocker cisapride. Although L1825P generates late sodium current typical of SCN5A-linked long-QT syndrome (LQT3) in vitro, the patient reported had a normal QT interval before administration of the drug. To address this discrepancy, we tested the hypothesis...
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