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In utero onset of long QT syndrome with atrioventricular block and spontaneous or lidocaine-induced ventricular tachycardia: compound effects of hERG pore region mutation and SCN5A N-terminus variant.
Heart rhythm - 1 Nov 2008
Lin Ming-Tai, Wu Mei-Hwan, Chang Chien-Chih, Chiu Shuenn-Nan, Thériault Olivier, Huang Hai, Christé Georges, Ficker Eckhard, Chahine Mohamed
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BACKGROUND: Mexiletine may protect patients with long QT syndrome (LQTS) type 3 from arrhythmias. However, we found an unusual in utero presentation of intermittent atrioventricular block and ventricular tachycardia (spontaneous or lidocaine-induced) in a fetus and his sibling with LQTS. OBJECTIV...
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