January 27th, 2010
Wednesday January 27 News Roundup: Simple Test for LQTS, More on MIST Controversy
Larry Husten, PHD
New Test for LQTS: A new test to diagnose Long QT syndrome (LQTS) is surprisingly simple, fast, and cheap. In an expedited study appearing in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Sami Viskin and an international team of colleagues looked at the ECG of LQTS patients and normal subjects after they were asked to stand quickly after being supine. They found a highly significant 50 ms difference in the corrected QT interval and concluded that the test “should be used in addition to more accepted tests when necessary.”
MIST in the BMJ: A feature news story in BMJ by Jonathan Gornall provides a highly detailed inside look at the characters and series of events that created the public controversy and lawsuit surrounding the MIST trial, which sought to test the benefits of PFO closure to fix migraines.
ACC Preview: The late-breaking clinical trials for the ACC.10 and i2 Summit in March in Atlanta have been added to the online program planner. They’re a bit hard to locate, but you can find them by selecting the browse option.
