Article
[New perspectives in long QT syndrome].
Revista de investigacion clinica; organo del Hospital de Enfermedades de la Nutricion - 1 Jan 2000
Medeiros-Domingo Argelia, Iturralde-Torres Pedro, Canizales-Quinteros Samuel, Hernández-Cruz Arturo, Tusié-Luna M Teresa
Abstract excerpt
Long QT Syndrome (LQTS) is a cardiac channelopathy characterized by prolonged ventricular repolarization and increased risk to sudden death secondary to ventricular dysrrhythmias. Was the first cardiac channelopathy described and is probably the best understood. After a decade of the sentinel identification of ion channel mutation in LQTS, genotype-phenotype correlations have been developed along with important...
Topics
- Bradycardia
- Cardiovascular Agents
- Death, Sudden, Cardiac
- Electric Countershock
- Fetal Diseases
- Fetal Heart
- Ganglionectomy
- Genotype
- Humans
- Ion Transport
- Long QT Syndrome