Brugada Syndrome - An Under-Recognized Electrical Disease in Patients with Sudden Cardiac Death

Cardiology

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 157-169

  Juang, Jyh Ming ^a   Huang, Shoei K Stephen ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brugada syndrome; Sudden cardiac death; Ventricular tachyarrhythmia

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHANNEL;

BRUGADA SYNDROME; CHROMOSOME 3P; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEFIBRILLATOR; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECG ABNORMALITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART DEATH; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POLYMORPHIC LOCUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SODIUM CURRENT; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SUDDEN DEATH; T WAVE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SODIUM CHANNELS; SYNDROME;

EID: 1542347020     PISSN: 00086312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000076693     Document Type: Review

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