Faulty cardiac repolarization reserve in alternating hemiplegia of childhood broadens the phenotype

Alternating hemiplegia of childhood is rare and usually results from mutations in cardiac- and brain-expressed ATP1A3. In an ECG study of 52 cases, Jaffer et al. reveal dynamic cardiac repolarisation or conduction abnormalities in over 50%. Abnormalities are more common in those ≥16 years, and suggest impaired cardiac repolarisation reserve.

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