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Congenital long QT syndrome(LQTS) is a disease characterized by prolongation of ventricle repolarization and by the occurrence, usually during emotional or physical stress, of life-threatening arrhythmias that lead to sudden death in most symptomatic and untreated patients. Two variants have been initially identified : the original Jervell and Lange-Nielsen syndrome of congenital deafness and autosomal recessive inheritance, and the more... |