Recurrent syncope due to sick sinus syndrome in a patient with myasthenia gravis associated with thymoma

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 32-34

  Tsugawa, Jun ^a   Tsuboi, Yoshio ^a   Inoue, Hirosato ^a   Suzuki, Shigeaki ^b   Yamada, Tatsuo ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti kv1.4 antibody; Myasthenia gravis; Sick sinus syndrome; Thymoma

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHANNEL KV1.4;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PACEMAKER; RR INTERVAL; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; SUDDEN DEATH; SYNCOPE; THYMOMA;

EID: 79551613356     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5692/clinicalneurol.51.32     Document Type: Article

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