Life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias during ajmaline challenge in patients with Brugada syndrome: Incidence, clinical features, and prognosis

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1869-1874

  Conte, Giulio ^a   Sieira, Juan ^a   Sarkozy, Andrea ^a,b   De Asmundis, Carlo ^a   Di Giovanni, Giacomo ^a   Chierchia, Gian Battista ^a   Ciconte, Giuseppe ^a   Levinstein, Moises ^a   Casado Arroyo, Ruben ^a   Baltogiannis, Giannis ^a   Saenen, Johan ^b   Saitoh, Yukio ^a   Pappaert, Gudrun ^a   Brugada, Pedro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^b ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ajmaline challenge; Brugada syndrome; Life threatening ventricular arrhythmias; Proarrhythmia; Sudden death

Indexed keywords

AJMALINE;

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRUGADA SYNDROME; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEFIBRILLATION; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LIFE THREAT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SINUS NODE DISEASE; SINUS RHYTHM;

AAD; AJMALINE CHALLENGE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC DRUG; ATRIOVENTRICULAR; AV; BRUGADA SYNDROME; BS; CORRECTED QT; ECG; ECMO; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC/ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATOR; ICD; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER-DEFIBRILLATOR; LIFE-THREATENING VENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIAS; PROARRHYTHMIA; QTC; SD; SINUS NODE DYSFUNCTION; SND; SUDDEN DEATH; SUSTAINED VENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIA; SVA; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION; VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; VF; VT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AJMALINE; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; BELGIUM; BRUGADA SYNDROME; CHILD; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84889877205     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2013.09.060     Document Type: Article

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