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Syncope in Brugada syndrome patients: prevalence, characteristics, and outcome.

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In this paper, the authors characterized syncope in patients with Brugada syndrome (BrS) and found that 28% of patients with BrS experienced at least 1 syncope.
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This article is published in Heart Rhythm.The article was published on 2012-08-01. It has received 86 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Implantable loop recorder & Syncope (genus).

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Present Status of Brugada Syndrome: JACC State-of-the-Art Review.

TL;DR: The Brugada syndrome is an inherited disorder associated with risk of ventricular fibrillation and sudden cardiac death in a structurally normal heart and in approximately 30% of patients, a genetic variant may be implicated in causation after a comprehensive analysis.
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Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of syncope (version 2009): the Task Force for the Diagnosis and Management of Syncope of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)

TL;DR: Guidelines and Expert Consensus Documents summarize and evaluate all currently available evidence on a particular issue with the aim of assisting physicians in selecting the best management strategies for a typical patient, suffering from a given condition, taking into account the impact on outcome, as well as the risk/benefit ratio of particular diagnostic or therapeutic means.
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Brugada Syndrome: Report of the Second Consensus Conference Endorsed by the Heart Rhythm Society and the European Heart Rhythm Association

TL;DR: The present report elaborates further on the diagnostic criteria and examines risk stratification schemes and device and pharmacological approaches to therapy on the basis of the available clinical and basic science data.
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Long-Term Prognosis of Patients Diagnosed With Brugada Syndrome Results From the FINGER Brugada Syndrome Registry

TL;DR: In the largest series of Brugada syndrome patients thus far, event rates in asymptomatic patients were low and gender, familial history of SCD, inducibility of ventricular tachyarrhythmias during electrophysiological study, and the presence of an SCN5A mutation were not predictive of arrhythmic events.
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Long-Term Follow-Up of Individuals With the Electrocardiographic Pattern of Right Bundle-Branch Block and ST-Segment Elevation in Precordial Leads V1 to V3

TL;DR: The electrocardiographic pattern of right bundle-branch block with ST-segment elevation in leads V1 to V3 is increasingly recognized among patients who have aborted sudden cardiac death, but also in asymptomatic individuals, raising questions about its prognostic significance.
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