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Long QT Syndrome and Pregnancy [PDF]
Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2007 This study was designed to investigate the clinical course of women with long QT syndrome (LQTS) throughout their potential childbearing years.Only limited data exist regarding the risks associated with pregnancy in women with LQTS.The risk of experiencing an adverse cardiac event, including syncope, aborted cardiac arrest, and sudden death, during and
Seth R +17 more
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Mechanisms, Risk Factors, and Management of Acquired Long QT Syndrome: A Comprehensive Review [PDF]
The Scientific World Journal, 2012 Long QT syndrome is characterized by prolongation of the corrected QT (QTc) interval on the surface electrocardiogram and is associated with precipitation of torsade de pointes (TdP), a polymorphic ventricular tachycardia that may cause sudden death ...
Eleftherios M. Kallergis +4 more
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Clarithromycin-Induced Long QT Syndrome: A Case Report [PDF]
Case Reports in Medicine, 2012 Long QT syndrome develops for a number of reasons. The number of non-antiarrhythmic drugs reported to induce QT interval prolongation with or without torsade de pointes continues to increase.
Mecnun Cetin +4 more
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Long QT syndrome in a neonate [PDF]
Medicina Universitaria, 2015 AbstractCongenital long QT syndrome (cLQTS) is a channelopathy characterized by ventricular repolarization disturbances. The clinical presentation varies from an asymptomatic patient to a patient with recurrent syncopes, seizures, and even sudden death.
Isaías Rodríguez-Balderrama +3 more
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Torsades de pointes during laparoscopic adrenalectomy of a pheochromocytoma: a case report [PDF]
Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2011 Introduction Torsades de pointes is a rare but potentially lethal arrhythmia. The amount of literature available on Torsades de pointes occurring in patients with pheochromocytoma is limited, and we found no literature describing this dysrhythmia in a ...
Wiesfeld Ans CP +4 more
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Congenital Short QT Syndrome [PDF]
Indian Pacing and Electrophysiology Journal, 2004 Long QT intervals in the ECG have long been associated with sudden cardiac death. The congenital long QT syndrome was first described in individuals with structurally normal hearts in 1957.1 Little was known about the significance of a short QT ...
Charles Antzelevitch, Johnson Francis
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Long QT syndrome - causes and risk factors [PDF]
Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2018 Sudden cardiac death is a major public health challenge, which can be caused by genetic or acquired structural or electrophysiological abnormalities. These abnormalities include channelopathies such as long QT, short QT and Brugada syndromes.
Erwin Ciechański +3 more
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Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2011 In a First Nation community located northeast of Haida Gwaii in British Columbia, a 38-year-old woman required resuscitation from an apparent cardiac arrest that had occurred while she was coaching at a competitive sports event. She had a history of syncope and palpitations.
Laura Arbour +3 more
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Diagnosis, management and therapeutic strategies for congenital long QT syndrome
Heart, 2021 Congenital long QT syndrome (LQTS) is characterised by heart rate corrected QT interval prolongation and life-threatening arrhythmias, leading to syncope and sudden death.
A. Wilde, A. Amin, P. Postema
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Europace, 2001 The Long QT syndrome (LQTS) is an inherited arrhythmogenic disease occurring in the structurally normal heart that may cause sudden death and that usually manifests in children and teen-agers (1). The prevalence of this disorder is still undefined, however it is estimated to be between 1:10000–1:5000.
Priori, SG, Bloise, R, Crotti, L
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