Discrimination of Brugada syndrome patients from individuals with the saddle-back type ST-segment elevation using a marker of the standard 12-lead electrocardiography

Circulation Journal

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 546-549

  Nakazawa, Kiyoshi ^a   Sakurai, Tsuneharu ^b   Kishi, Ryoji ^a   Takagi, Akihiko ^a   Osada, Keizo ^a   Ryu, Shonosuke ^a   Fujita, Sadanori ^a   Matsuda, Hisao ^a   Ishikawa, Yukako ^a   Miyake, Fumihiko ^a  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brugada syndrome; Diagnosis; Electrocardiogram

Indexed keywords

PILSICAINIDE;

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRUGADA SYNDROME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; PROVOCATION TEST; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION;

ADULT; AGED; ARRHYTHMIA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRUGADA SYNDROME; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIDOCAINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS;

EID: 34047106674     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.71.546     Document Type: Article

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