Article
[Diagnosis, sudden death risk stratification, and treatment of main long QT syndrome molecular-genetic variants].
Kardiologiia - 1 Jan 2011
Shkol'nikova M A, Kharlap M S, Il'darova R A, Bereznitskaia V V, Kalinin L A
Abstract excerpt
Inherited long QT syndrome (LQTS) refers to the primary electrical diseases of the heart. It is characterized by QT prolongation on resting ECG and syncope due to life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias. This review focuses on diagnosis, differential diagnosis, risk stratification of sudden cardiac death, and treatment strategy of patients with most prevalent genetic fOrms of LQTS - LQT1, LQT2 and LQT3, which...
Topics
- Anti-Arrhythmia Agents
- Death, Sudden, Cardiac
- Defibrillators, Implantable
- Diagnosis, Differential
- Electrocardiography
- Genetic Association Studies
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genetic Testing
- History, 20th Century
- History, 21st Century
