Long QT syndrome susceptibility mutations and pregnancy loss: Another piece of a still unfinished puzzle?

JAMA

Volumn 309, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 1525-1526

  Guttmacher, Alan E ^a   Spong, Catherine Y ^a   Willinger, Marian ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; EDITORIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ETHNICITY; FETUS WASTAGE; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; ITALY; KARYOTYPE; LONG QT SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STILLBIRTH; SUDDEN DEATH; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84875918752     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2013.3373     Document Type: Editorial

References (12)

1. Ventura SJ, Curtin SC, Abma JC, Henshaw SK. Estimated Pregnancy Rates, and Rates of Pregnancy Outcomes for the United States, 1990-2008. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics; June 2012. www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/ nvsr/nvsr60/nvsr60-07.pdf. Accessed March 19, 2013.
2. MacDorman MF, Kirmeyer SE, Wilson EC. Fetal and Perinatal Mortality, United States, 2006. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics; August 2012. www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr60/nvsr60-08.pdf. Accessed March 19, 2013.
3. van den Berg MMJ, van Maarle MC, van Wely M, Goddijn M. Genetics of early miscarriage. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2012;1822(12):1951-1959.
4. Stillbirth Collaborative Research Network Writing Group. Causes of death among stillbirths. JAMA. 2011;306(22):2459-2468.
5. Crotti L, Tester DJ, White WM, et al. Long QT syndrome-associated mutations in intrauterine fetal death. JAMA. 2013;309(14):1473-1482.
6. Van Norstrand DW, Ackerman MJ. Genomic risk factors in sudden infant death syndrome. Genome Med. 2010;2(11):86.
7. Matturri L, Lavezzi AM. Unexplained stillbirth versus SIDS: common congenital diseases of the autonomic nervous system - pathology and nosology. Early Hum Dev. 2011;87(3):209-215.
8. Fifer WP, Myers MM. Sudden fetal and infant deaths: shared characteristics and distinctive features. Semin Perinatol. 2002;26(1):89-96. (Pubitemid 34165050)
9. Ishikawa S, Yamada T, Kuwata T, et al. Fetal presentation of long QT syndrome - evaluation of prenatal risk factors: a systematic review. Fetal Diagn Ther. 2013;33(1):1-7.
10. Conway DL, Hansen NI, Dudley DJ, et al Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Stillbirth Collaborative Research Network. An algorithm for the estimation of gestational age at the time of fetal death. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol. 2013;27(2):145-157.
11. Hui L, Bianchi DW. Recent advances in the prenatal interrogation of the human fetal genome. Trends Genet. 2013;29(2):84-91.
12. Reddy UM, Page GP, Saade GR, et al NICHD Stillbirth Collaborative Research Network. Karyotype versusmicroarray testing for genetic abnormalities after stillbirth. N Engl J Med. 2012;367(23):2185-2193.