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(Chest. 1973;64:359-362.)
© 1973 American College of Chest Physicians

Heritable Q-T Prolongation without Congenital Deafness

Romano-Ward Syndrome

Miklòs Csanàdy M.D.1 and Zoltàn Kiss M.D.1

1 Department of Medicine, University Medical School Szeged, Hungary

An additional case of the Romano-Ward syndrome is reported. In three members of a family, the Q-T intervals on the ECGs were found to be prolonged. One of the members was resuscitated on several occasions from Adams-Stokes attacks which occurred the first day postpartum and in subsequent premenstrual periods; these attacks were caused by ventricular fibrillation. The betaadrenergic blocking drug propranolol proved to be an effective agent in preventing attacks. Given in a relatively small main






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