Surface ECG characteristics of ventricular tachyarrhythmias before degeneration into ventricular fibrillation in patients with Brugada-type ECG

International Heart Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 477-487

  Ohkubo, Kimie ^a   Watanabe, Ichiro ^a   Okumura, Yasuo ^a   Ashino, Sonoko ^a   Kofune, Masayoshi ^a   Ohta, Masakatsu ^a   Nakai, Toshiko ^a   Kunimoto, Satoshi ^a   Kasamaki, Yuji ^a   Hirayama, Atsushi ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brugada syndrome; Electrophysiologic study; Ventricular fibrillation; Ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; CIBENZOLINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRUGADA SYNDROME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATOR; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART STIMULATION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HIS BUNDLE; HUMAN; INTRACARDIAC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; REFRACTORY PERIOD; SUDDEN DEATH; SYNCOPE; AGED; COHORT ANALYSIS; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; BRUGADA SYNDROME; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349252254     PISSN: 13492365     EISSN: 13493299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1536/ihj.50.477     Document Type: Article

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