ALLMedicine™ Long QT Syndrome Center

Oct 17th, 2020 - Ventricular tachycardia (VT) is a rare cause of tachycardia during the fetal life. Coexistence of VT with sinus bradycardia or second-degree heart block strongly suggests long QT syndrome (LQTS) [1-3] and needs to administrate to the mother beta-b...

Oct 15th, 2020 - To those of us involved in clinical research it seldom happens to begin working on a rather obscure disease, still largely unexplored, and to follow its ripening into a medical entity of large interest to clinicians and basic scientists alike, and...

Oct 15th, 2020 - BACKGROUND Long QT syndrome (LQTS) is an arrhythmogenic heart condition that can be congenital or acquired. Prolonged ventricular repolarizations in individuals with the disorder can cause fatal arrhythmias. Abnormal functioning of cardiac ion cha...

Oct 12th, 2020 - Jervell and Lange-Nielsen syndrome (JLNS) is a subtype of congenital long QT syndrome (LQTS), which is a potentially life-threatening ion channelopathy characterized by delayed myocardial repolarization that leads to QT prolongation. Since JLNS is...

Oct 8th, 2020 - Torsade de Pointes arrhythmia is a potentially lethal polymorphic ventricular tachyarrhythmia (pVT) in the setting of long QT syndrome. Arrhythmia susceptibility is influenced by risk factors modifying repolarization. To characterize repolarizatio...

Nov 18th, 2018 - Long QT syndrome (LQTS) is associated with potentially fatal arrhythmias. Treatment is very effective, but its diagnosis may be challenging. Importantly, different methods are used to assess the QT interval, which makes its recognition difficult. ...

Oct 17th, 2020 - Ventricular tachycardia (VT) is a rare cause of tachycardia during the fetal life. Coexistence of VT with sinus bradycardia or second-degree heart block strongly suggests long QT syndrome (LQTS) [1-3] and needs to administrate to the mother beta-b...

Oct 15th, 2020 - To those of us involved in clinical research it seldom happens to begin working on a rather obscure disease, still largely unexplored, and to follow its ripening into a medical entity of large interest to clinicians and basic scientists alike, and...

Oct 15th, 2020 - BACKGROUND Long QT syndrome (LQTS) is an arrhythmogenic heart condition that can be congenital or acquired. Prolonged ventricular repolarizations in individuals with the disorder can cause fatal arrhythmias. Abnormal functioning of cardiac ion cha...

Oct 12th, 2020 - Jervell and Lange-Nielsen syndrome (JLNS) is a subtype of congenital long QT syndrome (LQTS), which is a potentially life-threatening ion channelopathy characterized by delayed myocardial repolarization that leads to QT prolongation. Since JLNS is...

Oct 8th, 2020 - Torsade de Pointes arrhythmia is a potentially lethal polymorphic ventricular tachyarrhythmia (pVT) in the setting of long QT syndrome. Arrhythmia susceptibility is influenced by risk factors modifying repolarization. To characterize repolarizatio...

Nov 18th, 2018 - Long QT syndrome (LQTS) is associated with potentially fatal arrhythmias. Treatment is very effective, but its diagnosis may be challenging. Importantly, different methods are used to assess the QT interval, which makes its recognition difficult. ...

May 13th, 2018 - Artificial intelligence can identify congenital Long QT Syndrome on a single lead ECG, even in patients with a normal electrocardiogram, said researchers from AliveCor -- whose KardiaBand add-on for the Apple Watch is such a device -- at the Heart...

Feb 16th, 2018 - A celebrated physician and and pioneer in sudden cardiac death research, Arthur Moss, MD, of University of Rochester Medical Center, passed away on Wednesday at age 86. His legacy is a career spanning more than 60 years that was marked by major co...

Oct 12th, 2016 - Action Points Data mining millions of electronic health records led to the discovery of a new drug interaction involving ceftriaxone and lansoprazole that is assocaited with acquired long QT syndrome. Note that the study suggests that a well-contr...

Nov 12th, 2013 - Action Points Checking fetal heart rhythms with magnetocardiography may be able to diagnose long QT syndrome and allow intervention before the baby is born. Note that for some of the fetuses, information gleaned from fetal magnetocardiography that...