Identification of high-risk syncope related to ventricular fibrillation in patients with Brugada syndrome

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 752-759

  Take, Yutaka ^a   Morita, Hiroshi ^a   Toh, Norihisa ^a   Nishii, Nobuhiro ^a   Nagase, Satoshi ^a   Nakamura, Kazufumi ^a   Kusano, Kengo F ^a   Ohe, Tohru ^b   Ito, Hiroshi ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b THE SAKAKIBARA HEART INSTITUTE OF OKAYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brugada syndrome; Neurally mediated syncope; Prodrome; Syncope; Ventricular fibrillation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLURRED VISION; BREATHING DISORDER; BRUGADA SYNDROME; DIAPHORESIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART PALPITATION; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICTURITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; QT INTERVAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUPINE POSITION; SYNCOPE; THORAX PAIN;

ADULT; BRUGADA SYNDROME; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK; SYNCOPE; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 84859963099     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2011.11.045     Document Type: Article

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