Heart failure: the electrophysiologic connection.
Heart failure often is complicated by lethal arrhythmias. This article presents an overview of current thinking about the mechanisms of sudden death in heart failure, with an emphasis on the hypothesis that cardiomyopathy is an acquired form of the long QT syndrome.
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Institute of Molecular Cardiobiology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA. marban@jhmi.edu
D000200:Action Potentials; D000818:Animals; D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000503:physiopathology; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006329:Heart Conduction System / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans