Ackerman syndrome is a familial syndrome of fused molar roots with a single canal (taurodontism), hypotrichosis, full upper lip without a cupid’s bow, thickened and wide philtrum, and occasional juvenile glaucoma. In medicine, the term syndrome is the association of several clinically recognizable features, signs, symptoms, phenomena or characteristics which often occur together, so that the presence of one feature alerts the physician to the presence of the others. ... A human face, with the philtrum in the yellow box. ...
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Ackerman JL, Ackerman AL, Ackerman AB (1973). Taurodont, pyramidal and fused molar roots associated with other anomalies in a kindred. Am J Phys Anthropol38 (3): 681-94. PMID 4349385
Long-QT syndrome is a family of genetic or acquired disorders that causes cardiac arrhythmias, irregularities in the electrical activity of the heart, that can lead to cardiac arrest and sudden death.
The syndrome is characterized by a longer-than-normal QT interval on an electrocardiogram.
Long-QT syndrome (LQTS) is one of the sudden arrhythmia death syndromes (SADS).
Ackerman and his colleagues investigated the cause of death of the 19-year-old woman because her death followed a near-drowning that had no satisfactory explanation.
Ackerman states that those at risk for long-QT syndrome include: those who experience fainting spells due to emotion, exercise or exertion; some relatives of those with long-QT syndrome; those with a family history of seizures, SIDS and sudden death; and those who experience an unexplained near-drowning.
Those at risk for long-QT syndrome include those who experience fainting spells due to emotion, exercise or exertion; some relatives of those with long-QT syndrome; those with a family history of seizures, SIDS and sudden death; and those who experience an unexplained near-drowning.
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