TY - GEN AU - Wael Abd El Hameed Elsiory AU - Tarek Abd El halium Kaddah , AU - Tarek Mahmoud Abd El barr , AU - Zakareya Mohammed , TI - Long QT syndrome and anaesthesia / PY - 2005/// CY - Cairo : PB - Wael Abd El Hameed Elsiory , KW - Sudden death KW - Syncope KW - Torsades de pointes N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty Of Medicine - Department Of Anaesthesia; Issued also as CD N2 - Long QT syndrome (LQTS) is a disorder of cardiac ion channelsIts importance lies in the potential for development of fatal arrhythmias on anaesthesizing undiagnosed patients Pathophysiology of LQTS explains the molecular and cellular basis of the condition Clinical picture and diagnosis of the disease are the first line of defense against undiagnosed patients Better understanding of the effects of anaesthetic drugs is essential in order to improve anaesthetic management of the disease ER -