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Right bundle branch block, persistent ST segment elevation and sudden cardiac death: A distinct clinical and electrocardiographic syndrome by Pedro Brugada; Josep Brugada is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
## Objectives: The objectives of this study were to present data on eight patients with recurrent episodes of aborted sudden death unexplainable by currently known diseases whose common clinical and electrocardiographic (ecg) features define them as having a distinct syndrome different from idiopathic ventricular fibrillation. ## Background: Among patients with ventricular arrhythmias who have no structural heart disease, several subgroups have been defined. the present patients constitute an additional subgroup with these findings. ## Methods: The study group consisted of eight patients, six male and two female, with recurrent episodes of aborted sudden death. clinical and laboratory data and results of electrocardiography, electrophysiology, echocardiography, angiography, histologic study and exercise testing were available in most cases. ## Results: The ecg during sinus rhythm showed right bundle branch block, normal qt interval and persistent st segment elevation in precordial leads v1 to v2-v3 not explainable by electrolyte disturbances, ischemia or structural heart disease. no histologic abnormalities were found in the four patients in whom ventricular biopsies were performed
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- Author
- Pedro Brugada; Josep Brugada
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1992
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)