Pueraria mirifica, an estrogenic tropical herb, unveiled the severity of Type 1 LQTS caused by KCNQ1-T587M.

Asami KashiwaYukio HosakaKazuyoshi TakahashiSeiko OhnoYuko WadaTakeru MakiyamaHirotaka OdaMinoru Horie

Published in: Journal of arrhythmia (2021)

After taking an estrogen-containing supplement derived from a tropical plant Pueraria mirifica, a 24-year-old woman presented marked QT prolongation and repetitive torsade de pointes. The patient was found to carry a heterozygous KCNQ1-T587M mutation. This is the first report on Pueraria mirifica-related acquired long QT syndrome.

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