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Brugada-like syndrome in infancy presenting with rapid ventricular tachycardia and intraventricular conduction delay.
Circulation - 3 Jan 2012
Kanter Ronald J, Pfeiffer Ryan, Hu Dan, Barajas-Martinez Héctor, Carboni Michael P, Antzelevitch Charles
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Brugada syndrome is a potentially serious channelopathy that usually presents in adulthood and has only rarely been described in infancy. In the absence of metabolic or structural cardiac disease, rapid ventricular tachycardia (>200 bpm) and primary cardiac conduction disease are uncommon in infancy. We hypothesized that infants having rapid ventricular tachycardia and conduction abnormalities and not...
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