I think there's no reason why the test in principle shouldn't be just as easy to perform as a treadmill stress test. Ackerman said that at his center, patients with suspected LQTS are worked up with a ...

POWAY, CA—Vitrek, a provider of high-voltage test and measurement equipment, introduces QT Enterprise, a major upgrade to its PC-based software designed to control operation of the company’s V7x and ...

QT prolongation occurs when the heart muscle takes longer to contract and relax than usual. It can affect heart rhythms and lead to sudden cardiac arrest. The heart is a muscle that contracts and ...

Researchers have reported the strong diagnostic ability of treadmill exercise stress testing to uncover long QT syndrome in patients. New data show that the recovery phase displays significant and ...

Long QT syndrome is a leading cause of sudden death in young persons, with a prevalence exceeding 1 in 2000. It is characterized by prolongation of the QT interval, aberrant T-wave morphologic ...

Congenital long-QT syndrome is a disorder resulting in ventricular arrhythmias and sudden death. The most common forms of the long-QT syndrome, types 1 and 2, are caused by mutations in the ...