Cardiac arrhythmias of genetic origin are important contributors to sudden infant death syndrome

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 740-742

  Schwartz, Peter J ^a,b   Crotti, Lia ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN MATTEO   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO AUXOLOGICO ITALIANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; CALCIUM ION; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; FK 506 BINDING PROTEIN; HISTIDINE; RYANODINE RECEPTOR 2; SERINE;

ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; BRUGADA SYNDROME; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CATECHOLAMINERGIC POLYMORPHIC VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; DRUG EFFICACY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; LONG QT SYNDROME; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL STRESS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT QT SYNDROME; SUDDEN DEATH; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; CATECHOLAMINES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MUTATION; RISK FACTORS; RYANODINE RECEPTOR CALCIUM RELEASE CHANNEL; STRESS; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 34249717706     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2007.03.035     Document Type: Editorial

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