Cardiac channelopathies: The role of sodium channel mutations.

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INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES: The importance of sodium channels for the normal electrical activity of the heart is emphasized by the fact that mutations (inherited or de novo) in genes that encode for these channels or their associated proteins cause arrhythmogenic syndromes such as the Brugada syndrome and the long QT syndrome (LQTS). The aim of this study is to conduct a review of the literature on the mutations...

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