Cardiology · Cardiology / Pediatric cardiology
Sudden infant death syndrome with cardiac cause
also: SIDS-related channelopathy
Infant death possibly attributable to long QT or other channelopathy.
- Specialty
- Cardiology
- Subspecialty
- Cardiology / Pediatric cardiology
- Sex & age distribution
- Male: affected, slightly more common; Female: affected; Children: yes, infants under 1 year
- Gene(s) involved
- CAV3, KCNH2, KCNQ1, RYR2, SCN4B, SCN5A
- Alternative names & eponyms
- SIDS-related channelopathy
Etiology & mechanism
Genetic variants in ion channel genes found in a minority of SIDS cases.
Gene(s) involved (6)
Symptoms & signs (2)
In plain terms, someone with Sudden infant death syndrome with cardiac cause may experience the following — click any to explore related syndromes:
Same gene(s)
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Overlapping symptoms
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Shares symptoms with
Shares genes with
5 shared
Long QT syndrome
CAV3, KCNH2, KCNQ1, SCN4B, SCN5A
4 shared
Sudden infant death syndrome
CAV3, KCNQ1, SCN4B, SCN5A
2 shared
Short QT syndrome
KCNH2, KCNQ1
1 shared
Adams–Stokes syndrome
SCN5A
1 shared
Brugada syndrome
SCN5A
1 shared
Cyclic vomiting syndrome
RYR2
1 shared
Early repolarization syndrome
SCN5A
1 shared
Irritable bowel syndrome
SCN5A
1 shared
Jervell and Lange-Nielsen syndrome
KCNQ1
1 shared
Sick sinus syndrome
SCN5A
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