Sudden Cardiac Death with Left Main Coronary Artery Occlusion in a Patient Whose Presenting ECG Suggested Brugada Syndrome

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2175-2177

  Hata, Tadayoshi ^a   Watanabe, Yoshio ^b   Hata, Yoko ^c   Fukami, Hatsue ^c   Kuroda, Makoto ^a  

^a FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHONAN KAMAKURA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brugada type ecg; Holter ecg; Short coupled variant of torsades de pointes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRUGADA SYNDROME; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE COURSE; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SUDDEN DEATH; TORSADE DES POINTES;

BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SYNDROME;

EID: 0242721064     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2003.00339.x     Document Type: Article

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