Prolonged QT interval (vastly superior to a Long QT Syndrome)

So I get home from M-I-crookedletter-crookedletter-I-crookedletter-crookedletter-I-humpback-humpback-I last night at about 10 in the p.m. Shortly after that, a cardiologist called (yes, at 10 p.m.) and said we should bring James in first thing in the morning. That's what you love to hear, immediately following an infant's funeral.

We went in this morning, and the doctor said that he saw something that worried him on the EKG James got in November. So we had another EKG, and an echo-something, and now the doctor is no longer worried. Here's what he found: the earlier test showed a prolonged QT interval (see above). He says that means basically that the heart isn't beating efficiently. If the QT interval is consistently prolonged, you call it Long QT Syndrome and it's potentially hazardous. James, however, only had it for a short time, when he was sick. Today's test showed a normal QT interval, so the previous one was likely just a symptom of whatever made him sick. No big deal. The doctor is no longer worried. But he has bills to pay, so he's having James wear a monitor for 24 hours, and he has a follow-up in a month. And mommy and daddy get to take their own EKGs, so that he can see if James is genetically predisposed to weird heart stuff. But the cardiologist thinks there's nothing to worry about.

Fun week.