Electrocardiographic screening of 1-month-old infants for identifying prolonged QT intervals

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 932-938

  Yoshinaga, Masao ^a   Ushinohama, Hiroya ^b   Sato, Seiichi ^c   Tauchi, Nobuo ^d   Horigome, Hitoshi ^e   Takahashi, Hideto ^e   Sumitomo, Naokata ^f   Kucho, Yuu ^a   Shiraishi, Hirohiko ^g   Nomura, Yuichi ^h   Shimizu, Wataru ⁱ   Nagashima, Masami ^d  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION KAGOSHIMA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b FUKUOKA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c NIIGATA CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d Aichi Saiseikai Hospital   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^f NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g Josai Hospital   (Japan)

^h KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arrhythmias, cardiac; Death, sudden, cardiac; Diagnosis; Electrocardiography; Long QT syndrome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; INFANT; LONG QT SYNDROME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QT PROLONGATION; WOLFF PARKINSON WHITE SYNDROME; DIAGNOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ETHNOLOGY; GENETICS; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DISEASE; JAPAN; LONG-QT SYNDROME; MULTICENTER STUDY; MUTATION; SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEART DISEASES;

ERG1 POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL HERG;

ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; LONG-QT SYNDROME;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ETHER-A-GO-GO POTASSIUM CHANNELS; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT; JAPAN; LONG QT SYNDROME; MALE; MUTATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84891525936     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.113.000619     Document Type: Article

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