Q: My daughter is almost 14, she has had incessant recurrent pericarditis since she was 12 and has to remain on medications or the pericarditis returns. She has had several effusions, one of them moderate to large, which caused her heart to start collapsing in. My main question is that she has ekg’s done every 1-2 months and always the …
I have long QTsyndrome. How dangerous is that?
Q: We got propably lqt syndrome 1 or 2 in our family. We undergo genetic tests these days. It was discovered incidentally on my routine ECG, than confirmed on another. I´m now 25, I had only 2 presyncopes/no collapse up to now.I have been played strenous sport all my life including soccer, basketball, snowboarding, I played ice hockey for 10 …
I am worried about my doctor’s advice
Q: I was recently at a routine appointment when my physician took my blood pressure, then did a chest x-ray, followed by what I think was a stress test. She then told me that my heart rate was way too high and immediately referred me to a cardiologist. To make it worst she hugged me before leaving and “wished me …