TY - JOUR
T1 - Quinidine
T2 - An "endangered species" drug appropriate for management of electrical storm in brugada syndrome
AU - Paraskevaidis, Stelios
AU - Theofilogiannakos, Efstratios K.
AU - Kamperidis, Vasileios
AU - Chatzizisis, Yiannis S.
AU - Tsilonis, Konstantinos
AU - Vassilikos, Vassilios P.
AU - Dakos, George
AU - Stavropoulos, George
AU - Ziakas, Antonios
AU - Hadjimiltiades, Stavros
AU - Styliadis, Ioannis H.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Brugada syndrome
KW - Electrical storm
KW - Quinidine
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U2 - 10.1016/S0972-6292(16)30670-2
DO - 10.1016/S0972-6292(16)30670-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84883390277
SN - 0972-6292
VL - 13
SP - 178
EP - 180
JO - Indian Pacing and Electrophysiology Journal
JF - Indian Pacing and Electrophysiology Journal
IS - 5
ER -