Less than 1 percent of the population has been diagnosed with Long QT syndrome – a rare heart condition that can cause chaotic, sometimes fatal, heart rhythms. Now, Virginia Tech researchers at the ...

A new registry study aims to help physicians share personalized and quantitative information on the risk for life-threatening arrhythmic events associated with long-QT syndrome (LQTS). Also, for the ...

Timothy syndrome (TS), a rare autosomal-dominant disorder, is characterized by presence of a heart arrhythmia (long QT syndrome), which causes the cardiac muscle to take longer than usual to recharge ...

Sudden cardiac death, and episodes of fainting and seizures from long QT syndrome are significantly lower than previously thought when patients are diagnosed and treated at a specialty center ...

Prolonged QT syndrome (a.k.a. Long QT Syndrome) consists of multiple different variations including long QT type 1-12, Romano-Ward syndrome and Jervell-Lange-Nielsen syndrome. A prolonged QT interval ...

Long QT syndrome (LQTS) is the prototypic cardiac channelopathy underscored by profound genetic and phenotypic heterogeneity. In 1991, the first LQTS chromosome locus was identified and subsequently ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I recently read that long QT syndrome is quite common. What is it, and how is it diagnosed? I have read that fainting may be one sign of the disorder. Can long QT syndrome be treated ...

Women with congenital long QT syndrome (LQTS) need to be cautious when taking an oral contraceptive (OC), observational data suggest—those on progestin-only pills are nearly three times more likely to ...

Researchers have been using artificial intelligence (AI) to develop a mobile device that can identify certain patients at risk of sudden cardiac death. Researchers from Mayo Clinic and AliveCor Inc.

CredibleMeds, a valuable resource for prescribing physicians, now includes information from FDA drug labels to inform prescribers of any ECG monitoring recommendations, warnings for use in congenital ...