Cardiac arrest related to coronary vasospasm in a patient With long QT1

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Kukla, Piotr ^a   Zienciuk, Agnieszka ^b   Stec, Sebastian ^b   Cybulska, Celina ^c  

^a Specialist Hospital   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Coronary vasospasm; Long qt syndrome; Sudden cardiac death

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; METOPROLOL; VERAPAMIL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; DEFIBRILLATOR; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; KCNQ1 GENE; LONG QT SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT PROLONGATION; SYMPTOM; SYNCOPE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

CORONARY VASOSPASM; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; LONG QT SYNDROME; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349446734     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.108.823690     Document Type: Article

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