Nitric oxide signalling in cardiovascular health and disease

C Farah, LYM Michel, JL Balligand - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2018‏ - nature.com
Nitric oxide (NO) signalling has pleiotropic roles in biology and a crucial function in
cardiovascular homeostasis. Tremendous knowledge has been accumulated on the …

Congenital long QT syndrome

AD Krahn, Z Laksman, RW Sy, PG Postema… - Clinical …, 2022‏ - jacc.org
Congenital long QT syndrome (LQTS) encompasses a group of heritable conditions that are
associated with cardiac repolarization dysfunction. Since its initial description in 1957, our …

[HTML][HTML] hERG K+ channels: structure, function, and clinical significance

JI Vandenberg, MD Perry, MJ Perrin… - Physiological …, 2012‏ - journals.physiology.org
The human ether-a-go-go related gene (hERG) encodes the pore-forming subunit of the
rapid component of the delayed rectifier K+ channel, Kv11. 1, which are expressed in the …

Epidemiology and genetics of sudden cardiac death

R Deo, CM Albert - Circulation, 2012‏ - ahajournals.org
Sudden cardiac death (SCD) generally refers to an unexpected death from a cardiovascular
cause in a person with or without preexisting heart disease. The specificity of this definition …

Personalizing risk stratification for sudden death in dilated cardiomyopathy: the past, present, and future

BP Halliday, JGF Cleland, JJ Goldberger, SK Prasad - Circulation, 2017‏ - ahajournals.org
Results from the DANISH Study (Danish Study to Assess the Efficacy of ICDs in Patients
With Non-Ischemic Systolic Heat Failure on Mortality) suggest that for many patients with …

The measurement of the QT interval

PG Postema, A AM Wilde - Current cardiology reviews, 2014‏ - ingentaconnect.com
The evaluation of every electrocardiogram should also include an effort to interpret the QT
interval to assess the risk of malignant arrhythmias and sudden death associated with an …

Genetics of sudden cardiac death

CR Bezzina, N Lahrouchi, SG Priori - Circulation research, 2015‏ - ahajournals.org
Sudden cardiac death occurs in a broad spectrum of cardiac pathologies and is an important
cause of mortality in the general population. Genetic studies conducted during the past 20 …

Transethnic genome-wide association study provides insights in the genetic architecture and heritability of long QT syndrome

N Lahrouchi, R Tadros, L Crotti, Y Mizusawa… - Circulation, 2020‏ - ahajournals.org
Background: Long QT syndrome (LQTS) is a rare genetic disorder and a major preventable
cause of sudden cardiac death in the young. A causal rare genetic variant with large effect …

Exome‐based analysis of cardiac arrhythmia, respiratory control, and epilepsy genes in sudden unexpected death in epilepsy

RD Bagnall, DE Crompton, S Petrovski… - Annals of …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Objective The leading cause of epilepsy‐related premature mortality is sudden unexpected
death in epilepsy (SUDEP). The cause of SUDEP remains unknown. To search for genetic …

Long-QT syndrome: from genetics to management

PJ Schwartz, L Crotti, R Insolia - Circulation: Arrhythmia and …, 2012‏ - ahajournals.org
Schwartz et al LQTS: From Genetics to Management 869 transmembrane portion of the K+
channel with a mild dominant-negative functional effect; in these patients, we demonstrated …