Background A 19-year-old woman with an established diagnosis of long QT syndrome
(LQTS) 2 and underlying KCNH2-mutation was referred to our centre for recurrent …

Long QT syndrome (LQTS) is a disorder of ventricular myocardial repolarization
characterized by a prolonged QT interval on the electrocardiogram (ECG). At least 12 …

Congenital long QT syndrome (LQTS) is a group of ion channel disorders of ventricular
myocytes caused by mutations of genes that encode these ion channels. The main clinical …

Background: Short QT syndrome is a recently described genetic arrhythmogenic disorder.
Little is known about its clinical presentation as only a few cases have been described …

The identification in 1995–1996 of the three major genes for the long QT syndrome (LQTS)
has opened up the molecular era for arrhythmogenic disorders and has led to the frequent …

Congenital short QT syndrome is a very low prevalence inherited primary arrhythmia
syndrome first reported in 2000 by Gussak et al., who described two families with a short QT …

BACKGROUND: Long QT syndrome (LQTS) gene mutation carriers with indeterminate
electrocardiogram frequently escape clinical diagnosis. We assessed the use of epinephrine …

Congenital long QTsyndrome (LQTS) is a primary hereditary arrhythmia syndrome
characterized by a prolonged QT interval in the surface electrocardiogram (ECG). 1 Patients …

Objective The congenital long QT syndrome (LQTs) is a hereditary disorder in which most
affected family members have delayed ventricular repolarization manifested on the …

Methods we included 24 propositus newborns from our population with LQTS. Genetic study
was possible in 19 cases. Results the diagnosis of LQTS was made according to a QT …