Quinidine: an "Endangered Species" Drug Appropriate for Management of Electrical Storm in Brugada Syndrome

Brugada syndrome is an inherited channelopathy associated with an increased risk of syncope and sudden cardiac death. In rare cases it can be manifested with electrical storm. We report two cases of Brugada syndrome that presented with electrical storm and were treated successfully with oral quinidi...

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Autores principales: Paraskevaidis, Stelios, Theofilogiannakos, Efstratios K, Kamperidis, Vasileios, Chatzizisis, Yiannis S, Tsilonis, Konstantinos, Vassilikos, Vassilios P, Dakos, George, Stavropoulos, George, Ziakas, Antonios, Hadjimiltiades, Stavros, Styliadis, Ioannis H
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Indian Heart Rhythm Society 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3775321/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24130427
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author Paraskevaidis, Stelios
Theofilogiannakos, Efstratios K
Kamperidis, Vasileios
Chatzizisis, Yiannis S
Tsilonis, Konstantinos
Vassilikos, Vassilios P
Dakos, George
Stavropoulos, George
Ziakas, Antonios
Hadjimiltiades, Stavros
Styliadis, Ioannis H
author_facet Paraskevaidis, Stelios
Theofilogiannakos, Efstratios K
Kamperidis, Vasileios
Chatzizisis, Yiannis S
Tsilonis, Konstantinos
Vassilikos, Vassilios P
Dakos, George
Stavropoulos, George
Ziakas, Antonios
Hadjimiltiades, Stavros
Styliadis, Ioannis H
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description Brugada syndrome is an inherited channelopathy associated with an increased risk of syncope and sudden cardiac death. In rare cases it can be manifested with electrical storm. We report two cases of Brugada syndrome that presented with electrical storm and were treated successfully with oral quinidine, an "endangered species" drug.
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spelling pubmed-37753212013-10-15 Quinidine: an "Endangered Species" Drug Appropriate for Management of Electrical Storm in Brugada Syndrome Paraskevaidis, Stelios Theofilogiannakos, Efstratios K Kamperidis, Vasileios Chatzizisis, Yiannis S Tsilonis, Konstantinos Vassilikos, Vassilios P Dakos, George Stavropoulos, George Ziakas, Antonios Hadjimiltiades, Stavros Styliadis, Ioannis H Indian Pacing Electrophysiol J Case Report Brugada syndrome is an inherited channelopathy associated with an increased risk of syncope and sudden cardiac death. In rare cases it can be manifested with electrical storm. We report two cases of Brugada syndrome that presented with electrical storm and were treated successfully with oral quinidine, an "endangered species" drug. Indian Heart Rhythm Society 2013-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3775321/ /pubmed/24130427 Text en Copyright: © 2013 Paraskevaidis et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Paraskevaidis, Stelios
Theofilogiannakos, Efstratios K
Kamperidis, Vasileios
Chatzizisis, Yiannis S
Tsilonis, Konstantinos
Vassilikos, Vassilios P
Dakos, George
Stavropoulos, George
Ziakas, Antonios
Hadjimiltiades, Stavros
Styliadis, Ioannis H
Quinidine: an "Endangered Species" Drug Appropriate for Management of Electrical Storm in Brugada Syndrome
title Quinidine: an "Endangered Species" Drug Appropriate for Management of Electrical Storm in Brugada Syndrome
title_full Quinidine: an "Endangered Species" Drug Appropriate for Management of Electrical Storm in Brugada Syndrome
title_fullStr Quinidine: an "Endangered Species" Drug Appropriate for Management of Electrical Storm in Brugada Syndrome
title_full_unstemmed Quinidine: an "Endangered Species" Drug Appropriate for Management of Electrical Storm in Brugada Syndrome
title_short Quinidine: an "Endangered Species" Drug Appropriate for Management of Electrical Storm in Brugada Syndrome
title_sort quinidine: an "endangered species" drug appropriate for management of electrical storm in brugada syndrome
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3775321/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24130427
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