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The Brugada Syndrome
eBook - From Bench To Bedside
ISBN/EAN: 9781405146814
Umbreit-Nr.: 3657993
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 248 S., 4.62 MB
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 15.04.2008
Auflage: 1/2008
E-Book
Format: PDF
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- Until recently, the cellular basis for sudden death, the Brugada Syndrome, has largely remained an unknown to modern arrhythmologists and cardiologists, particularly in the absence of any structural heart disease. Detailed observations of age-groups, especially the young, families and populations where sudden death frequently occurs, and improved understanding of its contributory factors and mechanisms are, however, showing the way forward.<p>This addition to the<i>Clinical Approaches to Tachyarrhythmias (CATA)</i> Series, written by the investigators who discovered and probed the Brugada Syndrome, discusses the history, etiology, pathology and clinical manifestations of sudden death. From diagnosis, prognosis, to therapeutic approaches using the latest in cathater ablation techniques, electrophysiological surgery, and genetic appraisal, the work is a testimony to the author's investigation. Using clinical cases in Thailand and Laos, they further unravel the syndrome's molecular mechanisms, studying related syndromes, such as the long-QT syndrome, infant death, and arryhthmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy.</p><p>By being informed of the electrophysiological abnormalities that contribute to familial and genetic diseases, physicians, cardiologists and all those who care for patients with cardiac arrhythmias will be better able to identify and treat patients in whom the Brugada Syndrome may strike next.</p>
- Autorenportrait
- Charles Antzelevitch, PhD, is Executive Director/Director of Research; Gordon K. Moe Scholar; Professor of Pharmacology at the Masonic Medical Research Laboratory; Utica, New York.<br /><p>Pedro Brugada, MD, PhD, is Professor of Cardiology at the Cardiovascular Center OLV Hospital in Aalst, Belgium.</p>