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Cardiac sodium channel overlap syndromes: different faces of SCN5A mutations.
Trends in cardiovascular medicine - 1 Apr 2008
Remme Carol Ann, Wilde Arthur A M, Bezzina Connie R
Abstract excerpt
Cardiac sodium channel dysfunction caused by mutations in the SCN5A gene is associated with a number of relatively uncommon arrhythmia syndromes, including long-QT syndrome type 3 (LQT3), Brugada syndrome, conduction disease, sinus node dysfunction, and atrial standstill, which potentially lead to fatal arrhythmias in relatively young individuals. Although these various arrhythmia syndromes were originally...
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