As more consumer-facing devices add features to measure the heart’s electrical activity, companies are looking for new ways to turn this data into valuable health information. AliveCor, a startup that ...

The QT interval is the time from the beginning of the QRS complex (ventricular depolarization) to the end of the T wave (ventricular repolarization). The normal QT interval is controversial and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . More than 13% of users of quetiapine and haloperidol developed severe QT prolongation. Severe QT prolongation ...

ROCHESTER, MN — A significant number of patients given implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) for long-QT syndrome (LQTS) receive them for reasons outside of current guidelines, and many ...

THE case reported below represents a new and very distinct clinical entity. The young patient was observed by us for some years. It was hoped that a similar combination of clinical findings might be ...

A tool predicted whether patients with long QT syndrome (LQTS) are at risk of life-threatening events that could be prevented by an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) or beta-blockers. "This ...

Minneapolis, MN - An increased duration of the QTc points to an elevated risk for coronary heart disease (CHD) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality in black and white healthy men and women, ...

Researchers have been using artificial intelligence (AI) to develop a mobile device that can identify certain patients at risk of sudden cardiac death. Researchers from Mayo Clinic and AliveCor Inc.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Cardiac repolarization dynamics seemed to cycle in sync with the menstrual cycle of some people with congenital and drug-induced long QT syndrome (LQTS), a small prospective study ...

Less than 1 percent of the population has been diagnosed with Long QT syndrome – a rare heart condition that can cause chaotic, sometimes fatal, heart rhythms. Now, Virginia Tech researchers at the ...