Inducible torsades de pointes during an acute face immersion test in an adolescent with type 2 long QT syndrome.

Jun MuneuchiYuichiro SugitaniMamie Watanabe

Published in: Cardiology in the young (2020)

We present the case of a 12-year-old boy with type 2 long QT syndrome in whom torsades de pointes was induced by an acute face immersion test. This test is feasible to predict cardiac events in adolescents with long QT syndrome.

Keyphrases

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