Cardiac Channelopathies and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

Abstract excerpt

Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is always a devastating and unexpected occurrence. SIDS is the leading cause of death in the first 6 months after birth in the industrialized world. Since the discovery in 1998 of long QT syndrome as an underlying substrate for SIDS, around 10-20% of SIDS cases have been proposed as being caused by genetic variants in either ion channel or ion channel-associated proteins. Until...

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

• Share to Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments
• Share to Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
• Share to Ion channel regulation and function