Syncope in pharmacologically unmasked Brugada syndrome: Indication for an implantable defibrillator or an unresolved dilemma?

Europace

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 159-163

  Samniah, N ^a   Iskos, D ^a   Sakaguchi, S ^a   Lurie, K G ^a   Benditt, David G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Brugada syndrome; Head up tilt table testing; Vasovagal syncope

Indexed keywords

AJMALINE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; FLECAINIDE; ISOPRENALINE; METOPROLOL; MIDODRINE; PROCAINAMIDE; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRUGADA SYNDROME; CASE REPORT; CAUCASIAN; CONVALESCENCE; DEFIBRILLATOR; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EVALUATION; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FAMILY HISTORY; HEART STIMULATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SUDDEN DEATH; SYMPTOM; SYNCOPE; TILT TABLE TEST; VERTIGO;

ADULT; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; HUMANS; MALE; MIDODRINE; SYNCOPE, VASOVAGAL; SYNDROME; TILT-TABLE TEST; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 0035048928     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/eupc.2001.0154     Document Type: Article

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