The Genetics of Acquired Long QT Syndrome

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  • Itoh Hideki
    1 Department of Cardiovascular and Respiratory Medicine, Shiga University of Medical Science

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  • 後天性QT延長症候群の遺伝的背景

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<p>Aims : Acquired long QT syndrome（aLQTS）exhibits QT prolongation and Torsades-de-Pointes ventricular tachycardia triggered by drugs, hypokalemia or bradycardia. Sometimes QTc remains prolonged despite elimination of triggers, suggesting the presence of an underlying genetic substrate. We assessed the prevalence of mutations in major LQTS genes in aLQTS subjects and their probability of being carriers of a disease-causing genetic variant based on clinical factors. We screened for the 5 major LQTS genes among 188 aLQTS probands（55±20 years, 140 females）from Japan, France and Italy. Based on control QTc（without triggers）, subjects were designated “true aLQTS”（QTc within normal limits）or “unmasked cLQTS”（all others）and compared for QTc and genetics with 2379 members of 1010 genotyped congenital long-QT-syndrome（cLQTS）families. Cardiac symptoms were present in 86％ of aLQTS subjects. Control QTc of aLQTS was 453±39msec, shorter than in cLQTS（478±46msec, p＜0.001）and longer than in non-carriers（406±26msec, p＜0.001）. In 53（28％）aLQTS subjects, 47 disease-causing mutations were identified. KCNQ1 mutations were much less frequent than KCNH2 （20％［95％CI 7％―41％］ vs. 64％［95％CI 43％―82％］, p＜0.01） in “true aLQTS” than in cLQTS. A clinical score based on control QTc＞440msec, age＜40 years, and symptoms allowed identification of patients more likely to carry LQTS mutations. A third of aLQTS patients carry cLQTS mutations, those on KCNH2 being more common. The probability of being a carrier of cLQTS disease-causing mutations can be predicted by simple clinical parameters, thus allowing possibly cost-effective genetic testing leading to cascade screening for identification of additional at-risk family members.</p>

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