High prevalence of early repolarization in short QT syndrome

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 647-652

  Watanabe, Hiroshi ^a   Makiyama, Takeru ^b   Koyama, Taku ^c   Kannankeril, Prince J ^d   Seto, Shinji ^e   Okamura, Kazuki ^f   Oda, Hirotaka ^f   Itoh, Hideki ^g   Okada, Masahiko ^a   Tanabe, Naohito ^a   Yagihara, Nobue ^a   Kamakura, Shiro ^c   Horie, Minoru ^a   Aizawa, Yoshifusa ^a   Shimizu, Wataru ^c  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Inoue Hospital   (Japan)

^f NIIGATA CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^g SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Electrocardiogram; QT interval; Repolarization; Sudden death

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART RATE; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; PR INTERVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; QT INTERVAL; SHORT QT SYNDROME; T WAVE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; RISK; RISK FACTOR; TIME;

ERG1 POTASSIUM CHANNEL; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL; KCNJ2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; KCNQ1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL HERG; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KCNQ1;

ADULT; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ETHER-A-GO-GO POTASSIUM CHANNELS; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC TESTING; HEART RATE; HUMANS; JAPAN; KCNQ1 POTASSIUM CHANNEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, INWARDLY RECTIFYING; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957576054     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2010.01.012     Document Type: Article

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