Arrhythmias in Brugada syndrome: Changing throughout day and season?

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1528-1529

  Postema, Pieter G ^a   Wilde, Arthur A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRUGADA SYNDROME; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DEFIBRILLATION; EDITORIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART SUPRAVENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; ST SEGMENT; SUDDEN DEATH; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; BRUGADA SYNDROME; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HUMANS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONS;

EID: 57149134255     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2008.08.033     Document Type: Editorial

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