Brugada Syndrome With Ventricular Tachycardia and Fibrillation Related to Hypokalemia

A 60-year-old man with asymptomatic Brugada syndrome and neither a history of syncope nor family history of sudden death was admitted because of bronchial asthma. Serum potassium concentration was 3.8 mmol/L on admission, and decreased to 3.1 mmol/L on the 6th day, probably as a side effect of stero...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Circulation Journal 2003, Vol.67(1), pp.93-95
Hauptverfasser:	Araki, Tsutomu, Konno, Tetsuo, Itoh, Hideki, Ino, Hidekazu, Shimizu, Masami
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Biological and medical sciences Brugada syndrome Bundle-Branch Block - complications Bundle-Branch Block - surgery Cardiac dysrhythmias Cardiology. Vascular system Death, Sudden, Cardiac - prevention & control Defibrillators, Implantable Heart Humans Hypokalemia Hypokalemia - complications Hypokalemia - drug therapy Male Medical sciences Middle Aged Potassium - therapeutic use Tachycardia, Ventricular - etiology Ventricular fibrillation Ventricular Fibrillation - etiology Ventricular tachycardia
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