LQTS can be inherited or acquired through medications or electrolyte imbalances, with family history being a significant risk factor. While some individuals with LQTS may not experience symptoms, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Compared with married people, unmarried people were more likely to have a prolonged QT interval, according to ...

THE case reported below represents a new and very distinct clinical entity. The young patient was observed by us for some years. It was hoped that a similar combination of clinical findings might be ...

LQT-1213 is a first-in-class serum glucocorticoid regulated kinase 1 inhibitor. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Orphan Drug designation to LQT-1213, a first-in-class serum ...

BACKGROUND: Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) and prolonged QT interval at ECG (QTc) are common in both obesity and arterial hypertension (AH), and are risk factors for cardiovascular disease and ...

Thirty healthy volunteers and ten patients with congenital long QT syndrome participated in a four-day thorough-QT-study. On days one and three, study subjects received no study drugs and underwent ...

I think there's no reason why the test in principle shouldn't be just as easy to perform as a treadmill stress test. Ackerman said that at his center, patients with suspected LQTS are worked up with a ...

As more consumer-facing devices add features to measure the heart’s electrical activity, companies are looking for new ways to turn this data into valuable health information. AliveCor, a startup that ...

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 ...

MONTREAL, Aug. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Thryv Therapeutics Inc. today announced positive results of the WAVE 1 Proof of Concept clinical study evaluating LQT-1213 for the reduction of QTcF in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SAN FRANCISCO — Patients who drank 2 L grapefruit juice within several hours had significant corrected QT ...