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Evaluation of QT interval duration and dispersion and proposed clinical criteria in diagnosis of long QT syndrome in patients with a genetically uniform type of LQT1.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology - 1 Aug 1998
Swan H, Saarinen K, Kontula K, Toivonen L, Viitasalo M
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: This study investigated the ability of QT duration, QT dispersion (QTD) and clinical diagnostic criteria to correctly identify genetically documented LQT1 type long QT syndrome (LQTS) patients, and to separate symptomatic and asymptomatic LQT1 patients. BACKGROUND: Ventricular repolarization has played an essential role both in diagnosis and risk assessment of LQTS. Today, molecular genetic techniques...
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