"Benign" course and malignant clinical presentations of congenital long QT syndrome

Europace

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 50-53

  Khalameizer, Vladimir ^a   Pancheva, Nadia ^a   Reizin, Leonardo ^a   Eli Ovsyshcher, I ^a,b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Congenital long QT; Pacemaker; Torsades de pointes

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ATENOLOL; ENALAPRIL;

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LONG QT SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT INTERVAL; QT PROLONGATION; ST SEGMENT; SYNCOPE; T WAVE; TORSADE DES POINTES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LONG QT SYNDROME; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 12544257413     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eupc.2004.09.004     Document Type: Article

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