New Aspects for the Treatment of Cardiac Diseases Based on the Diversity of Functional Controls on Cardiac Muscles: Acute Effects of Female Hormones on Cardiac Ion Channels and Cardiac Repolarization

• Glavni autori: Junko Kurokawa (Autor), Takeshi Suzuki (Autor), Tetsushi Furukawa (Autor)
• Format: Knjiga
• Izdano: Elsevier, 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Teme: article
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Regulation of cardiac ion channels by sex hormones accounts for gender differences in susceptibility to arrhythmias associated with QT prolongation (TdP). Women are more prone to develop TdP than men with either congenital or acquired long-QT syndrome. The risk of drug-induced TdP varies during the...