Case 37-2005: A 35-year-old man with cardiac arrest while sleeping

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 353, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 2492-2501

  Marill, Keith A ^a,b   Ellinor, Patrick T ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREATHING; BRUGADA SYNDROME; CARDIOLOGY; CASE REPORT; DEFIBRILLATOR; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FIRST AID; HEART ARREST; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RESUSCITATION; SLEEP; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; DOMINANT GENE; FATALITY; GENETICS; HEART BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; LONG QT SYNDROME; MUTATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SUDDEN DEATH; SYNDROME; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

SODIUM CHANNEL; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FATAL OUTCOME; GENES, DOMINANT; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; LONG QT SYNDROME; MALE; MUTATION; RISK FACTORS; SLEEP; SODIUM CHANNELS; SYNDROME; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VALPROIC ACID; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 28844439376     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc059033     Document Type: Article

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