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Fever-induced life-threatening arrhythmias in children harboring an SCN5A mutation.
Pediatrics - 1 Jan 2011
Chockalingam Priya, Rammeloo Lukas A, Postema Pieter G, Hruda Jarda, Clur Sally-Ann B, Blom Nico A, Wilde Arthur A
Abstract excerpt
Cardiac channelopathies caused by SCN5A mutation are well tolerated by most patients. However, the dramatic presentation of a previously healthy 4-month-old girl with life-threatening arrhythmias and the subsequent findings in the child and her family provide evidence that loss-of-function sodium channel mutations can present very early in life. An SCN5A mutation was detected in the infant, her brother, and their...
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