The Brugada syndrome: a recently recognised genetic disease causing suddencardiac death

Citation
Cb. Singleton et Ma. Mcguire, The Brugada syndrome: a recently recognised genetic disease causing suddencardiac death, MED J AUST, 173(8), 2000, pp. 415-418
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
General & Internal Medicine","Medical Research General Topics
Journal title
MEDICAL JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIA
ISSN journal
0025729X → ACNP
Volume
173
Issue
8
Year of publication
2000
Pages
415 - 418
Database
ISI
SICI code
0025-729X(20001016)173:8<415:TBSARR>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
Australian doctors need to be aware of this little-known syndrome, which is a cause of sudden cardiac death. If is more common among Southeast Asian p eople, who make up a considerable proportion of our population. We report t wo cases which represent very different clinical presentations of this cond ition.