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Brugada Syndrome: Diagnosis and Risk Stratification

All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

Brugada syndrome is thought to account for about one fourth of sudden cardiac deaths in individuals with structurally normal heart. This is mainly to account for the individual variation in anatomical location of right ventricular outflow tract, the main location of electrophysiological abnormalities in Brugada syndrome.

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Brugada Syndrome

All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

Transcript of the video: Brugada Syndrome was described by Brugada brothers in 1992 as right bundle branch block pattern in anterior leads with ST segment elevation and syncope or sudden cardiac death and it was later in 1998, that the genetic basis of the disease was identified, with mutations in sodium channel.