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What is your approach to inpatient work-up for suspected long QT syndrome in a young adult with otherwise normal labs and no medications causing prolonged QTc?

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What is your approach to inpatient work-up for suspected long QT syndrome in a young adult with otherwise normal labs and no medications causing prolonged QTc?

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Cardiology · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
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I would emphasize the basics when I approach this clinical scenario.

The first step is to carefully analyze the ECG that raised the question. Though measuring the QT interval should be easy, we all appreciate that this is not always the case. Carefully examine the index ECG, look at all the leads b...

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Cardiology · Aurora Cardiovascular Services
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The very detailed dancer by the primary expert was very helpful because it detailed the sequence of work up and the rationale for proceeding to the next step after each one. This is not a common condition, but I was pleased to see that my work up would have followed his precisely.

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