Prognostic significance of early repolarization in inferolateral leads in Brugada patients with documented ventricular fibrillation: A novel risk factor for Brugada syndrome with ventricular fibrillation

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1161-1168

  Kawata, Hiro ^a,b   Morita, Hiroshi ^a,c   Yamada, Yuko ^a   Noda, Takashi ^a   Satomi, Kazuhiro ^a   Aiba, Takeshi ^a   Isobe, Mitsuaki ^b   Nagase, Satoshi ^c   Nakamura, Kazufumi ^c   Fukushima Kusano, Kengo ^c   Ito, Hiroshi ^c   Kamakura, Shiro ^a   Shimizu, Wataru ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brugada syndrome; Early repolarization; Idiopathic ventricular fibrillation; J wave; Sudden death

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRUGADA SYNDROME; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; INCIDENCE; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; SECONDARY PREVENTION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION;

BRS; BRUGADA SYNDROME; EARLY REPOLARIZATION; ECG; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ER; ICD; IDIOPATHIC VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER-DEFIBRILLATOR; IVF; J WAVE; PES; PROGRAMMED ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; RIGHT VENTRICLE; RV; SCD; SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH; SUDDEN DEATH; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION; VF;

ADULT; AGED; BRUGADA SYNDROME; DEATH, SUDDEN; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881232769     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2013.04.009     Document Type: Article

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