Syncope in Brugada syndrome: Prevalence, clinical significance, and clues from history taking to distinguish arrhythmic from nonarrhythmic causes

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 367-375

  Olde Nordkamp, Louise R A ^a   Vink, Arja S ^a   Wilde, Arthur A M ^a   De Lange, Freek J ^a   De Jong, Jonas S S G ^a   Wieling, Wouter ^b   Van Dijk, Nynke ^b   Tan, Hanno L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brugada syndrome; Syncope; Ventriculararrhythmia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRUGADA SYNDROME; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FAINTNESS; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; URINE INCONTINENCE; COMPLICATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART RATE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYNCOPE; TIME;

ADULT; BRUGADA SYNDROME; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYNCOPE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84921284264     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2014.10.014     Document Type: Article

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