[Brugada's syndrome: epidemiology, risk stratification, and clinical management].

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Brugada syndrome is an arrhythmogenic disease, characterized by syncope and sudden cardiac death, with a typical electrocardiographic pattern: right bundle branch block and ST segment elevation in the right precordial leads. Only recently, the first gene causing Brugada syndrome has been demonstrated by the identification of mutations in SCN5A, the gene encoding for the cardiac sodium channel, also responsible...

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