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AUTHOR
L. Sutera
Cor triatriatum dexter assessed by three-dimensional echocardiography reconstruction in a female adult patient.
Inefficiency of renin-angiotensin inhibitors to prevent the Atrial Fibrillation in patient with normal heart
Diagnosis and management of the Takotsubo cardiomyopathy: Role of echocardiography
Rupture of the atherosclerotic plaque: is Chlamydia pneumoniae a possible agent?
Ventricular arrhythmias in children: the uselessness of MRI.
The long QT syndrome in pediatric age: Prognosis and risk factor
AIM: Long QT syndrome is a rare arrhythmic disease with a low incidence in the general population. There are no sure clinical or electrocardiographic parameters that could lead to a correct prognostic stratification in patients affected by this syndrome. The correlation between the incidence of a sudden death or dangerous ventricular arrhythmias and the duration of QTc interval is still a controversial topic. METHODS: Twenty nine children affected by QT long syndrome were admitted to the Division of Pediatric Cardiology of the Casa del Sole Hospital of Palermo (Italy). Their diagnosis was made by electrocardiogram (ECG). The average age of the patients was 7.6 years. The average follow-up w…