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Brugada syndrome and fever: genetic and molecular characterization of patients carrying SCN5A mutations.
Cardiovascular research - 15 Aug 2005
Keller Dagmar I, Rougier Jean-Sébastien, Kucera Jan P, Benammar Nawal, Fressart Véronique, Guicheney Pascale, Madle Alois, Fromer Martin, Schläpfer Jürg, Abriel Hugues
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Brugada syndrome (BrS) is characterized by ventricular tachyarrhythmias leading to sudden cardiac death and is caused, in part, by mutations in the SCN5A gene encoding the sodium channel Na(v)1.5. Fever can trigger or exacerbate the clinical manifestations of BrS. The aim of this work was to characterize the genetic and molecular determinants of fever-dependent BrS. METHODS: Four male patients with...
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