ECG T-WAVE PATTERNS IN GENETICALLY DISTINCT FORMS OF THE HEREDITARY LONG QT SYNDROME
ECG T-WAVE PATTERNS IN GENETICALLY DISTINCT FORMS OF THE HEREDITARY LONG QT SYNDROME
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DOI:
10.1161/01.cir.92.10.2929
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发表时间:
1995-11-15
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影响因子:
37.8
通讯作者:
TIMOTHY, KW
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作者:
MOSS, AJ;ZAREBA, W;TIMOTHY, KW
Background The long QT syndrome is an inherited disorder with prolonged ventricular repolarization and a propensity to ventricular tachyarrhythmias and sudden arrhythmic death. Recent linkage studies have demonstrated three separate loci for this disorder on chromosomes 3, 7, and 11, and specific mutated genes for long QT syndrome have been identified on two of these chromosomes. We investigated ECG T-wave patterns (phenotypes) in members of families linked to three genetically distinct forms of the long QT syndrome.Methods and Results Five quantitative ECG repolarization parameters, ie, four Bazett-corrected time intervals (QT(onset-c), QT(peak-c), QT(c), and T-duration-c, in milliseconds) and the absolute height of the T wave (T-amplitude, in millivolts), were measured in 153 members of six families with long QT syndrome linked to markers on chromosomes 3 (n=47), 7 (n=30), and 11 (n=76). Genotypic data were used to define each family member as being affected or unaffected with long QT syndrome. Affected members of all six families had longer QT intervals (QT(onset-c), or QT(c)) than unaffected family members (P