The physician completes a physical exam, which includes: height, body weight, apical pulse rate and rhythm, resting blood pressure, auscultation of the lungs, palpation of the cardiac apical impulse, point of maximal impulse, auscultation of the heart, palpation and auscultation of the carotid, ab...
Background: Potassium channelopathies are associated with prolonged QT cardiac syndrome. New potassium channelopathies in somatic cells, including KCNJ5 mutations, also underlie some forms of primary hyperaldosteronism. We present a first-in-human report of an association between a KCNQ1 loss of ...