Is there a relation between SIDS and long QT syndrome?

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 445-449

  Skinner, J R ^a  

^a Storship Children's Hospital   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISAPRIDE; SEDATIVE AGENT; TERFENADINE;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; EDITORIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FAMILY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LONG QT SYNDROME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT PROLONGATION; SLEEP; SUDDEN DEATH; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; TORSADE DES POINTES;

AUTOPSY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FAMILY HEALTH; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONG QT SYNDROME; MUTATION; SODIUM CHANNELS; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 18244363870     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2004.057935     Document Type: Editorial

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