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Cardiac repolarisation: the long and short of it
Author(s) -
Smith Warren M
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb01845.x
Subject(s) - citation , library science , computer science
The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025-729X 16 June 2008 188 12 688-689©The Medical Journal of Australia 2008www.mja.com.auEditorialshe fault dear Brutus is not in our stars, but in ourselves”.Through the lens of molecular medicine we are nowbeginning to see those faults more clearly. We can nowincreasingly understand why some apparently healthy childrenand young adults die without warning. The long-QT syndrome isforemost among responsible causes, and is known to be theconsequence of mutations in genes encoding ion channel func-tion.