ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Pediatr.
Sec. Pediatric Cardiology
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fped.2025.1571495
Clinical characteristics and gene analysis of Long QT Syndrome in 15 children
Provisionally accepted
- Children‘s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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Objective: To elucidate the genetic and clinical characteristics of children diagnosed with long QT syndrome (LQTS) at our institution.This was a retrospective study. Clinical data and gene detection results of 15 cases diagnosed with congenital LQTS at our center from January 1, 2018 to December 30, 2023 were collected and analyzed using independent sample t-test and Levene's test for equality of variances.The 15 LQTS cases included 7 females and 8 males. The mean age of onset for females (11.83±3.48 years) was later than that for males (8.06±2.50 years) , and the mean QTc value for females (564.57±20.72 ms) was higher than that for males (502. 25±48.62 ms), both differences were statistically significant (P < 0.05). Intense exercise and psychological stress are the most common predisposing factors in these cases. Gene mutations were found in 14 of the 15 cases and most mutations (13/14) were inherited from parents. According to the mutation sites, the most common mutation type was missense mutations (11/15). One genetically exclusive case with a Schwartz score of 4 was clinically diagnosed with LQTS after excluding other diseases.In this cohort, age of onset and QTc value are different between male and female. The most common primary symptom of LQTS is syncope. Most LQTS patients have a mutated gene inherited from their parents, and the most common pathogenic gene is KCNQ1.
Keywords: Long QT Syndrome, Children, Clinical Characteristics, gene mutation, KCNQ1
Received: 05 Feb 2025; Accepted: 02 Apr 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Li, Gong, Lv and Huichao. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Sun Huichao, Children‘s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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