DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I recently read that long QT syndrome is quite common. What is it, and how is it diagnosed? I have read that fainting may be one sign of the disorder. Can long QT syndrome be treated ...

October 12, 2007 (Leuven, Belgium) - Physicians in Belgium are warning colleagues about a misdiagnosis they say may be relatively common, particularly among young patients, but easily prevented with ...

A machine learning model was more effective at detecting congenital long QT syndrome on resting ECGs than manual measurement of QT intervals by arrhythmia experts, in a new study. Researchers ...

Long QT syndrome (LQTS) is a disease that affects the normal heart rhythm and electrical activity. It may lead to sudden onset and dangerous arrhythmias (irregularities of heart rate and rhythm) which ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In people with long QT syndrome, vigorous exercise did not raise risk for death or arrhythmias vs. nonvigorous ...

Mohamed Boutjdir, PhD, professor of medicine, cell biology, and physiology and pharmacology at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, has led a study with international collaborators identifying the mechanism ...

Stories of athletes who collapse and die grab the headlines, but you may not hear about the other 4,000 or so American children and young adults who die each year when their hearts malfunction because ...

Mayo Clinic researchers published a study Monday that offers new hope for patients suffering from long QT syndrome, a potentially-fatal heart rhythm condition. Sudden cardiac death and episodes of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In long QT syndrome, patients doing vigorous exercise did not have more events than those doing nonvigorous ...

MONTREAL, Sept. 17, 2025 /CNW/ - Thryv Therapeutics Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering novel serum glucocorticoid inducible kinase 1 (SGK1) inhibitors for cardiovascular diseases, ...