Brugada syndrome without mutation of the cardiac sodium channel gene in a Taiwanese patient.

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Brugada syndrome without mutation of the cardiac sodium channel gene in a Taiwanese patient.

Journal of the Formosan Medical Association = Taiwan yi zhi - 1 Nov 2000

Chen S M, Kuo C T, Lin K H, Chiang F T

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We describe a 45-year-old Taiwanese man with specific features of Brugada syndrome but no clinical features of structural heart disease. He was successfully treated with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator. His electrocardiogram (ECG) patterns changed intermittently. Alpha-adrenoceptor stimulation and beta-adrenoceptor blockade augmented the characteristic ST-segment elevation, whereas alpha-adrenoceptor...

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