Hemangioma located just above the left main coronary artery, in a subject who had cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation, led to a diagnosis of Brugada syndrome

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 437-441

  Nakamura, Koki ^a   Funabashi, Nobusada ^a   Miyauchi, Hideyuki ^a   Aminaka, Mari ^a   Uehara, Masae ^a   Ueda, Marehiko ^a   Murayama, Taichi ^a   Hori, Yasuhiko ^a   Nakayama, Takashi ^a   Daimon, Michiko ^a   Kuroda, Nakabumi ^a   Kobayashi, Yoshio ^a   Komuro, Issei ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brugada syndrome; Cardiac arrest; Hemangioma; Left main coronary artery; Ventricular fibrillation

Indexed keywords

BEPRIDIL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRUGADA SYNDROME; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEFIBRILLATOR; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT;

ADULT; BRUGADA SYNDROME; CORONARY VESSELS; HEART ARREST; HEART NEOPLASMS; HEMANGIOMA; HUMANS; MALE; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 45849085806     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2007.04.116     Document Type: Article

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