Predictive impact of the inducibility of ventricular fibrillation in patients with Brugada-type ECG

International Heart Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 229-236

  Imaki, Ryuta ^a   Niwano, Shinichi ^a   Fukaya, Hidehira ^a   Sasaki, Sae ^a   Yuge, Masaru ^a   Hirasawa, Shoji ^a   Sato, Daisuke ^a   Sasaki, Takeshi ^a   Moriguchi, Masahiko ^a   Izumi, Tohru ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brugada syndrome; Electrophysiological study; Sudden death; Ventricullar fibrillation

Indexed keywords

PILSICAINIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRUGADA SYNDROME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATOR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FATALITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MALE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PREDICTION; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROVOCATION TEST; RISK FACTOR; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

3-IODOBENZYLGUANIDINE; ACETYLCHOLINE; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SYNDROME; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 33645819842     PISSN: 13492365     EISSN: 13493299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1536/ihj.47.229     Document Type: Article

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