"Long QT Syndrome" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A condition that is characterized by episodes of fainting (SYNCOPE) and varying degree of ventricular arrhythmia as indicated by the prolonged QT interval. The inherited forms are caused by mutation of genes encoding cardiac ion channel proteins. The two major forms are ROMANO-WARD SYNDROME and JERVELL-LANGE NIELSEN SYNDROME.
| Descriptor ID |
D008133
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C14.280.067.565 C16.131.240.400.715 C23.550.073.547
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2012 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2013 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2014 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2018 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2019 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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