Article
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 unco...
Topics
- Brugada Syndrome
- Calcium Channels, L-Type
- Diagnosis, Differential
- Electrocardiography
- Female
- Heart Conduction System
- Humans
- Infant
- Infant, Newborn
- Male
- Mutation
- NAV1.5 Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel