Delayed diagnosis of Brugada syndrome in a patient with aborted sudden cardiac death and initial negative flecainide challenge

A negative flecainide challenge does not rule out Brugada syndrome even in the presence of nonfatal cardiac arrest as the first manifestation of the disease. This should prompt clinicians to ensure long‐term ECG follow‐up and consider repeating a drug test with another sodium channel blocker.

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Autores principales: Chauveau, Samuel, Le Vavasseur, Olivier, Chevalier, Philippe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5715432/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29225848
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1198
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spelling pubmed-57154322017-12-08 Delayed diagnosis of Brugada syndrome in a patient with aborted sudden cardiac death and initial negative flecainide challenge Chauveau, Samuel Le Vavasseur, Olivier Chevalier, Philippe Clin Case Rep Case Reports A negative flecainide challenge does not rule out Brugada syndrome even in the presence of nonfatal cardiac arrest as the first manifestation of the disease. This should prompt clinicians to ensure long‐term ECG follow‐up and consider repeating a drug test with another sodium channel blocker. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC5715432/ /pubmed/29225848 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1198 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Delayed diagnosis of Brugada syndrome in a patient with aborted sudden cardiac death and initial negative flecainide challenge
title Delayed diagnosis of Brugada syndrome in a patient with aborted sudden cardiac death and initial negative flecainide challenge
title_full Delayed diagnosis of Brugada syndrome in a patient with aborted sudden cardiac death and initial negative flecainide challenge
title_fullStr Delayed diagnosis of Brugada syndrome in a patient with aborted sudden cardiac death and initial negative flecainide challenge
title_full_unstemmed Delayed diagnosis of Brugada syndrome in a patient with aborted sudden cardiac death and initial negative flecainide challenge
title_short Delayed diagnosis of Brugada syndrome in a patient with aborted sudden cardiac death and initial negative flecainide challenge
title_sort delayed diagnosis of brugada syndrome in a patient with aborted sudden cardiac death and initial negative flecainide challenge
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5715432/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29225848
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1198
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