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Clinical implications for patients with long QT syndrome who experience a cardiac event during infancy.
J Am Coll Cardiol
August 2009
Section of Cardiology and Department of Cardiology and Molecular Cardiology Laboratory, Fondazione Policinico S. Matteo IRCCS and the University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
Objectives: This study was designed to evaluate the clinical and prognostic aspects of long QT syndrome (LQTS)-related cardiac events that occur in the first year of life (infancy).
Background: The clinical implications for patients with long QT syndrome who experience cardiac events in infancy have not been studied previously.
Methods: The study population of 3,323 patients with QT interval corrected for heart rate (QTc) > or =450 ms enrolled in the International LQTS Registry involved 20 patients with sudden cardiac death (SCD), 16 patients with aborted cardiac arrest (ACA), 34 patients with syncope, and 3,253 patients who were asymptomatic during the first year of life.