3型QT症候群の臨床的側面:国際多センター研究

Arthur A M Wilde1, Arthur J Moss2, Elizabeth S Kaufman2

  • 1From AMC Heart Centre, Department of Clinical and Experimental Cardiology (A.A.M.W., C.R.B.) and Department of Clinical Genetics (N.H., M.A.), Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Cardiology Division of the Department of Medicine (A.J.M., C.L., W.Z., I.G., J.L.R., M.L.A., S.M., B.P.), the Department of Biostatistics (D.R.P.), and the Department of Pathology (M.Q.), University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY; Heart and Vascular Research Center, MetroHealth Campus of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (E.S.K.); Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan (W.S.); Department of Cardiology Bikur Cholim Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel (J.B.); Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH (J.A.T.); IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Center for Cardiac Arrhythmias of Genetic Origin and Laboratory of Cardiovascular Genetics, Milan, Italy (C.P. L.C., P.J.S.); Department of Cardiology, Gentofte University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark (J.K.K.); Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Molecular Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics, Windland Smith Rice Sudden Death Genomics Laboratory, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (D.J.T., M.J.A.); Division of Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine (W.S.) and Department of Preventive Cardiology (Y.M.), National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Suita, Japan; Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Pavia, Italy (L.C.); Princess Al-Jawhara Al-Brahim Centre of Excellence in Research of Hereditary Disorders, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (A.A.M.W.); and Department of Cardiovascular, Neural and Metabolic Sciences, San Luca Hospital IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy (L.C., P.J.S.). a.a.wilde@amc.nl.

Circulation
|August 28, 2016
PubMed
まとめ

長期QTシンドローム3型 (LQT3) のリスク分層は,長期QTシンドロームとシンコープを主要なリスクとして特定しました. LQT3の女性ではベータブロッカーの治療で心臓発作が有意に減少した.

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