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.
Publication date
October 2013
DOI Publisher
Indian Heart Rhythm Society. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V.Abstract
AbstractBrugada 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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