Background: Sudden infant death syndrome mainly occurs during night-time sleep. Approximately 10% of cases are thought to involve infants with long QT syndrome (LQTS). Autonomic function and QT interval in night-time sleep in early infancy in LQTS infants, however, remain controversial.
Methods and results: Holter electrocardiography was performed in 11 LQTS infants before medication in early infancy, and in 11 age-matched control infants. Control infants were re-evaluated in late infancy. The power spectral density was calculated and parasympathetic activity and sympathovagal balance were obtained. Electrocardiograms of a representative hour during night-time sleep, daytime sleep, and daytime activity, were chosen and QT/RR intervals were manually measured. LQTS infants had significantly lower parasympathetic activity and higher sympathovagal balance during night-time sleep than control infants in early infancy. These autonomic conditions in early infancy were significantly depressed compared with late infancy. Corrected QT interval (QTc) during night-time sleep (490±20 ms) was significantly longer than that in daytime sleep (477±21 ms, P=0.04) or daytime activity (458±18 ms, P=0.003) in LQTS infants, and significantly longer than that during night-time sleep in controls.
Conclusions: A combination of the longest QTc and autonomic imbalance during night-time sleep in early infancy may be responsible for development of life-threatening arrhythmia in LQTS infants. Critical cases should be included in future studies.
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