An International Multicenter Evaluation of Type 5 Long QT Syndrome

Mechanisms of disease pathogenesis in long QT syndrome type 5.

KCNE1 associates with the pore-forming alpha-subunit KCNQ1 to generate the slow (I(Ks)) current in cardiac myocytes. Mutations in either KCNQ1 or KCNE1 can alter the biophysical properties of I(Ks) and mutations in KCNE1 underlie cases of long QT syndrome type 5 (LQT5). We previously investigated a mutation in KCNE1, T58P/L59P, which causes severe attenuation of I(Ks). However, how T58P/L59P ac...

25th anniversary of the International Long-QT Syndrome Registry: an ongoing quest to uncover the secrets of long-QT syndrome.

Today, it is exceptional to find a major cardiology congress without a session devoted to the long-QT syndrome (LQTS), but it was quite different 25 years ago when the minuscule knowledge about LQTS was paralleled only by the minute number of investigators interested in what seemed to be little more than a medical oddity. Partly by chance, the two of us had actually and independently developed ...

The congenital long QT syndrome Type 3: An update

Congenital long QT syndrome type 3 (LQT3) is the third in frequency compared to the 15 forms known currently of congenital long QT syndrome (LQTS). Cardiac events are less frequent in LQT3 when compared with LQT1 and LQT2, but more likely to be lethal; the likelihood of dying during a cardiac event is 20% in families with an LQT3 mutation and 4% with either an LQT1 or an LQT2 mutation. LQT3 is ...

Mechanisms of disease pathogenesis in 4 long QT syndrome type 5 5 6 7 8

The long QT syndrome: a prospective international study.

During the past 4 years 196 patients with the idiopathic long QT syndrome were enrolled in a prospective international study conducted to obtain a better understanding of the clinical course of this unusual repolarization disorder. The mean patient age was 24 years, 64% were female, and 88% had family members with QT prolongation. During an average follow-up of 26 months per patient, four patie...