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Successful Management of a Young Athlete with Type 2 Long QT Syndrome by Genotype-specific Risk Stratification and Bridging Therapy with a Wearable Cardioverter Defibrillator

We herein report a 14-year-old boy with repetitive nocturnal syncope related to medication-refractory long QT syndrome (LQTS). Although the use of an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) was inevitable to prevent sudden cardiac death, he refused immediate implantation in order to play in a b...

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Autores principales: Kojima, Katsumi, Kato, Koichi, Fujii, Yusuke, Okuyama, Yusuke, Ohno, Seiko, Ozawa, Tomoya, Horie, Minoru, Nakagawa, Yoshihisa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9107976/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35110475
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.8093-21