Brugada Syndrome: Relationship to other Arrhythmogenic Syndromes

The Brugada Syndrome: From Bench to Bedside

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 111-118

  Corrado, Domenico ^a   Basso, Cristina ^a   Buja, Gianfranco ^a   Nava, Andrea ^a   Thiene, Gaetano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADUA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arrhythmogenic syndromes; Brugada syndrome; Differential diagnosis; Etiopathogenesis; Familial cardiomyopathy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889406855     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470994900.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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