Treatment of ventricular fibrillation storm in Brugada syndrome: Weathering the storm but staying in hot water?

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 701-702

  Shvilkin, Alexei ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DENOPAMINE; DISOPYRAMIDE; DOBUTAMINE; ISOPRENALINE; LIDOCAINE; MAGNESIUM; MEXILETINE; POTASSIUM; QUINIDINE;

ANTIARRHYTHMIC ACTIVITY; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; BRUGADA SYNDROME; DEATH; DEFIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG COST; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG EFFICACY; EDITORIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESUSCITATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SYNCOPE; THERAPY RESISTANCE;

BRUGADA SYNDROME; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; HUMANS; ISOPROTERENOL; QUINIDINE; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 34249735219     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2007.02.024     Document Type: Editorial

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