Long QT Syndrome

Overview

Long QT syndrome is a heart rhythm condition caused by abnormalities in your heart's electrical system. Long QT syndrome is an inherited or acquired condition that may cause a fast, life-threatening heart rhythm (arrhythmia).

Why choose Mayo Clinic

• Expertise and experience. Mayo Clinic doctors have expertise and experience in evaluating and treating people who have long QT syndrome.
• Team approach. Mayo Clinic doctors trained in heart conditions (cardiologists) and heart surgery (cardiac surgeons) and other doctors care for people who have long QT syndrome. Doctors trained in treating children who have heart conditions (pediatric cardiologists) care for children who have long QT syndrome at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.
• Research. Mayo Clinic doctors in the Windland Smith Rice Sudden Death Genomics Laboratory at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota research genetics, risks, causes, and diagnostic and treatment options for long QT syndrome and other causes of sudden death.

Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., is ranked among the Best Hospitals for heart and heart surgery by U.S. News & World Report. Mayo Clinic also ranks among the Best Children's Hospitals for heart and heart surgery.

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