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ReviewThe Journal of physiology2013

Cardiac sodium channelopathy associated with SCN5A mutations: electrophysiological, molecular and genetic aspects.

Carol Ann Remme

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Review in The Journal of physiology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 105 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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105citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

105 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 182 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Carol Ann RemmeC. A. Remme: Department of Experimental Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands. c.a.remme@amc.uva.nl.
University of Amsterdam · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Over the last two decades, an increasing number of SCN5A mutations have been described in patients with long QT syndrome type 3 (LQT3), Brugada syndrome, (progressive) conduction disease, sick sinus syndrome, atrial standstill, atrial fibrillation, dilated cardiomyopathy, and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Combined genetic, electrophysiological and molecular studies have provided insight into the dysfunction and dysregulation of the cardiac sodium channel in the setting of SCN5A mutations identified in patients with these inherited arrhythmia syndromes. However, risk stratification and patient management is hindered by the reduced penetrance and variable disease expressivity in sodium channelopathies. Furthermore, various SCN5A-related arrhythmia syndromes are known to display mixed phenotypes known as cardiac sodium channel overlap syndromes. Determinants of variable disease expressivity, including genetic background and environmental factors, are suspected but still largely unknown. Moreover, it has become increasingly clear that sodium channel function and regulation is more complicated than previously assumed, and the sodium channel may play additional, as of yet unrecognized, roles in cardiac structure and function. Development of cardiac structural abnormalities secondary to SCN5A mutations has been reported, but the clinical relevance and underlying mechanisms are unclear. Increased insight into these issues would enable a major next step in research related to cardiac sodium channel disease, ultimately enabling improved diagnosis, risk stratification and treatment strategies.

Indexed as

Action PotentialsMutationAnimalsBrugada SyndromeChannelopathiesHumansLong QT SyndromeNAV1.5 Voltage-Gated Sodium ChannelNAV1.5 Voltage-Gated Sodium ChannelSCN5A protein, human

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PMID23818691
PMCPMC3779105
OpenAlexW2119327816

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