Long QT syndrome in children: the value of the rate corrected QT interval in children who present with fainting
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Long QT Syndrome in Children
he advent of genetic testing and the implantable ardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) have so revolutionized the utlook for patients with long QT that the cardiac commuity needs to revise its thinking about long QT syndrome LQTS). This is the underlying message of a report by theridge et al. (1) in this issue of the Journal. Etheridge et al. (1) studied 128 children with LQTS. bout one-half of their...
متن کاملLong QT syndrome in children.
T o those of us who were practicing cardiology in the early 1960s, the reports from Jervell and Lange-Nielsen,1 Romano and colleagues,2 and Ward3 were welcome enlightenment for a few of our patients with alarming episodes of syncope and a family history of sudden death. Although Ward reported that one of his original patients responded to ,8-blockade and that form of therapy remains central to ...
متن کاملThe QT and corrected QT interval in recovery after exercise in children.
BACKGROUND Prolongation of the QT interval after exercise can be used to help diagnose long-QT syndrome, especially when the resting QT interval is borderline. The aim of this study was to determine the normal ranges for QT and corrected QT in the recovery phase after exercise in children. METHODS AND RESULTS Ninety-four volunteer boys and girls aged 8 to < 17 years without any history of hea...
متن کاملRate adaptation of QT intervals during and after exercise in children with congenital long QT syndrome.
OBJECTIVES To improve the diagnostic criteria of the congenital long QT syndrome in borderline cases we examined rate adaptation of ventricular repolarization phases during exercise and subsequent recovery in children with the long QT syndrome and controls. METHODS Nineteen children with definite long QT syndrome and 19 healthy controls underwent exercise testing. QT intervals were measured t...
متن کامل[The long QT interval syndrome].
The syndrome of long QT interval frequently follows to syncope or a sudden cardiac death on the basis of originated polymorphic ventricular tachycardia of the "torsade de pointes" type. The prolongation of the QT interval in the hereditary form is based on mutation of the genes responsible for the formation of sodium and potassium channels. The authors analyze the occurrence, clinical findings,...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Screening
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0969-1413,1475-5793
DOI: 10.1136/jms.8.4.178