Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Patients with Congenital Long QT Syndrome: Implications for Increased Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death

BACKGROUND: Congenital long QT syndrome (LQTS) is a familial arrhythmogenic cardiac channelopathy characterized by prolonged ventricular repolarization and increased risk of torsades de pointes-mediated syncope, seizures, and sudden cardiac death (SCD). QT prolongation corrected for heart rate (QTc)...

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Vydáno v:Sleep
Hlavní autoři: Shamsuzzaman, Abu S., Somers, Virend K., Knilans, Timothy K., Ackerman, Michael J., Wang, Yu, Amin, Raouf S.
Médium: Artigo
Jazyk:Inglês
Vydáno: Associated Professional Sleep Societies, LLC 2015
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OSA with Congenital Long QT Syndrome: Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death
On-line přístup:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4481019/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26118557
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5665/sleep.4824
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