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Deadly proposal: a case of catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia.
Pediatric emergency care - 1 Nov 2011
Heiner Jason D, Bullard-Berent Jeffrey H, Inbar Shmuel
Abstract excerpt
Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT) is a rare adrenergically mediated arrhythmogenic disorder classically induced by exercise or emotional stress and found in structurally normal hearts. It is an important cause of cardiac syncope and sudden death in childhood. Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia is a genetic cardiac channelopathy with known mutations involving genes...
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