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Genotype- and phenotype-guided management of congenital long QT syndrome.
Current problems in cardiology - 1 Oct 2013
Giudicessi John R, Ackerman Michael J
Abstract excerpt
Congenital long QT syndrome (LQTS) is a genetically heterogeneous group of heritable disorders of myocardial repolarization linked by the shared clinical phenotype of QT prolongation on electrocardiogram and an increased risk of potentially life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias. At the molecular level, mutations in 15 distinct LQTS-susceptibility genes that encode ion channel pore-forming α-subunits and accessory...
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