Asymptomatic Brugada Syndrome: Clinical Characterization and Long-Term Prognosis

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1144-1150

  Sieira, Juan ^a   Ciconte, Giuseppe ^a   Conte, Giulio ^a   Chierchia, Gian Battista ^a   DE Asmundis, Carlo ^a   Baltogiannis, Giannis ^a   Di Giovanni, Giacomo ^a   Saitoh, Yukio ^a   Irfan, Ghazala ^a   Casado Arroyo, Rubén ^a,c   Julià, Justo ^a   La Meir, Mark ^b   Wellens, Francis ^b   Wauters, Kristel ^a   Pappaert, Gudrun ^a   Brugada, Pedro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^b Cardiac Surgery Department   (United States)

^c ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

arrhythmias, cardiac; Brugada syndrome; death, sudden, cardiac; defibrillators, implantable; prognosis

Indexed keywords

AJMALINE; FLECAINIDE; PROCAINAMIDE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BRUGADA SYNDROME; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE; EVENT FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART RUPTURE; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; INCIDENCE; LEAD FRACTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROVOCATION TEST; SCHOOL CHILD; SINUS NODE DISEASE; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; COMPLICATION; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; BRUGADA SYNDROME; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84944687164     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.114.003044     Document Type: Article

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