Article
Brugada Syndrome: Clinical, Genetic, Molecular, Cellular, and Ionic Aspects.
Current problems in cardiology - 1 Jan 2016
Antzelevitch Charles, Patocskai Bence
Abstract excerpt
Brugada syndrome (BrS) is an inherited cardiac arrhythmia syndrome first described as a new clinical entity in 1992. Electrocardiographically characterized by distinct coved type ST segment elevation in the right-precordial leads, the syndrome is associated with a high risk for sudden cardiac death in young adults, and less frequently in infants and children. The electrocardiographic manifestations of BrS are...
Topics
- Arrhythmias, Cardiac
- Brugada Syndrome
- Calcium Channels
- Defibrillators, Implantable
- Electrocardiography
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- Mutation
- Risk Factors
- Sodium Channels