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Qol In Child Lqts Patients Compared To Cardiac Patients, Elizabeth A. Waldron, Stephanie H. Felgoise, Carmella Tress, Katherine Lawrence, Victoria L. Vetter
Qol In Child Lqts Patients Compared To Cardiac Patients, Elizabeth A. Waldron, Stephanie H. Felgoise, Carmella Tress, Katherine Lawrence, Victoria L. Vetter
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Introduction:
• Long QT Syndrome (LQTS) is a life threatening geneticallyinherited cardiac arrhythmia disorder affecting approximately 1:2500 persons1, often diagnosed in childhood.
• Management of LQTS changes patients’ lifestyles which can affect quality of life (QoL). Patients have restrictions in physical activity, diet, treatment of noncardiac conditions; take daily doses of medicine and/or have implantable cardiac devices (pacemaker/defibrillator).
• General pediatirc cardiac patients show significantly worse QoL in comparison to healthy controls2,3.
• Nearly 1 in 5 with other cardiac disorders reported impaired psychosocial functioning3.
• The effects of implanted cardiac rhythm devices in cardiac patients demonstrated a significant effect …