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Congenital Long QT syndrome and torsade de pointes.

Since its initial description by Jervell and Lange-Nielsen in 1957, the congenital long QT syndrome (LQTS) has been the most investigated cardiac ion channelopathy. A prolonged QT interval in the surface electrocardiogram is the sine qua non of the LQTS and is a surrogate measure of the ventricular action potential duration (APD). Congenital as well as acquired alterations in certain cardiac ion channels can affect their currents in such a way as to increase the APD and hence the QT interval. The inhomogeneous lengthening of the APD across the ventricular wall results in dispersion of APD. This together with the tendency of prolonged APD to be associated with oscillations at the plateau level, termed early afterdepolarizations (EADs), provides the substrate of ventricular tachyarrhythmia associated with LQTS, usually referred to as torsade de pointes (TdP) VT. This review will discuss the genetic, molecular, and phenotype characteristics of congenital LQTS as well as current management strategies and future directions in the field.

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