[ST segment elevation, right bundle branch block and sudden death: Brugada's syndrome].

Abstract excerpt

Brugada's syndrome is one of the main causes of sudden death in young adults without a structural heart disease. This is an electrical cardiac illness secondary to a mutation of SCN5A gene of chromosome 3 that has a dominant autosomic transmission pattern. This mutation implies the dysfunction of the sodium channel that increases the Ito, loosing the dome of the epicardiac action potential phase two. An "all or...

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