Comparison of QT peak and QT end interval responses to autonomic adaptation in asymptomatic LQT1 mutation carriers

Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 209-214

  Haapalahti, Petri ^a   Viitasalo, Matti ^a   Perhonen, Merja ^a   Väänänen, Heikki ^a,b   Mäkijärvi, Markku ^a   Swan, Heikki ^a   Toivonen, Lauri ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Electrocardiography; Long QT Syndrome; QT interval

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHANNEL KCNQ1;

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EPICARDIUM; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; LONG QT SYNDROME; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT INTERVAL; REPOLARIZATION; SUPINE POSITION; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FINLAND; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEART; HUMANS; KCNQ1 POTASSIUM CHANNEL; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; ROMANO-WARD SYNDROME; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953744958     PISSN: 14750961     EISSN: 1475097X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-097X.2010.01002.x     Document Type: Article

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