New electrocardiographic criteria for discriminating between brugada types 2 and 3 patterns and incomplete right bundle branch block

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 58, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 2290-2298

  Chevallier, Stéphane ^a   Forclaz, Andrei ^a   Tenkorang, Joanna ^a   Ahmad, Yannis ^a   Faouzi, Mohamed ^a   Graf, Denis ^a   Schlaepfer, Juerg ^a   Pruvot, Etienne ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Brugada syndrome; ECG criteria; ECGSIM; incomplete right bundle branch block

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRUGADA SYNDROME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HUMAN; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESYNCOPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; QRS COMPLEX; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION;

ADULT; AJMALINE; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; BRUGADA SYNDROME; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 81255179530     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2011.08.039     Document Type: Article

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