Brugada syndrome: More than 20 years of scientific excitement.

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In 1992 we reported on eight patients with a particular electrocardiograph (ECG) showing ST segment elevation in the right precordial leads. All patients had a structurally normal heart and had survived one or multiple episodes of near sudden death caused by ventricular fibrillation. We showed 6 years later that this disease, known nowadays as Brugada syndrome, was caused by mutations in the SCN5A gene which...

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