PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Ethan Levine
AU  - Spencer Z. Rosero
AU  - Adam S. Budzikowski
AU  - Arthur J. Moss
AU  - Wojciech Zareba
AU  - James P. Daubert
TI  - Congenital long QT syndrome: Considerations for primary care physicians
DP  - 2008 Aug 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 591--600
VI  - 75
IP  - 8
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/75/8/591.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/75/8/591.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med2008 Aug 01; 75
AB  - Congenital long QT syndrome is an inherited disorder of cardiac repolarization that predisposes to syncope and to sudden death from polymorphic ventricular tachycardia. The disorder should be suspected when the electrocardiogram shows characteristic QT abnormalities, or when there is a family history of long QT syndrome or of an event that raises suspicion of long QT syndrome, such as sudden death, syncope, or ill-defined “seizure” disorder. We can now classify some types of congenital long QT syndrome according to their genetic mutations and their triggers, such as exercise, rest, or startle.