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Human SCN5A gene mutations alter cardiac sodium channel kinetics and are associated with the Brugada syndrome
1 Dec 1999
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Primary dysrhythmias other than those associated with the long QT syndrome, are increasingly recognized. One of these are represented by patients with a history of resuscitation from cardiac arrest but without any structural heart disease. These patients exhibit a distinct electrocardiographic (ECG) pattern consisting of a persistent ST-segment elevation in the right precordial leads often but not...
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