Published in Pain and Central Nervous System Week, February 27th, 2006
Study 1: Sympathetic stimulation can reveal the LQT1 phenotype associated with congenital long-QT syndrome even in subjects with normal baseline electrocardiographic findings.
Research recently appearing in the American Journal of Cardiology reports, "Patients with congenital long QT syndrome due to potassium channel mutations (LQT1 and LQT2) may elude diagnosis due to normal electrocardiographic findings at rest, yet remain at risk of sudden death during bradycardia or sympathetic stimulation."
According to E.S. Kaufman and colleagues at...
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