Familial long QT interval and sudden death
Androsoni, A.; Dolara, A.; Manetti, A.; Santoro, G.; Cecchi, F.
Giornale Italiano di Cardiologia 9(8): 881-885
1979
ISSN/ISBN: 0046-5968 PMID: 549802 Document Number: 150215
A family in whom two brothers, a sister and the father presented a long QT interval is reported. The father died suddenly at the age of 37. The opportunity of a more careful research of the syndrome, now underdiagnosed, is underlined in view of the curability such disease.
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