Ibrahim El-Battrawy, Huan Lan, Lukas Cyganek, Zhihan Zhao, Xin Li, Fanis Buljubasic, Siegfried Lang, Gökhan Yücel, Katherine Sattler, Wolfram-Hubertus Zimmermann, Jochen Utikal, Thomas Wieland, Ursula Ravens, Martin Borggrefe, Xiao-Bo Zhou, Ibrahim Akin
BACKGROUND: Short QT syndrome (SQTS), a disorder associated with characteristic ECG QT-segment abbreviation, predisposes affected patients to sudden cardiac death. Despite some progress in assessing the organ-level pathophysiology and genetic changes of the disorder, the understanding of the human cellular phenotype and discovering of an optimal therapy has lagged because of a lack of appropriate human cellular models of the disorder. The objective of this study was to establish a cellular model of SQTS using human-induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs)...
March 24, 2018: Journal of the American Heart Association