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Long-term follow-up of primary prophylactic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator therapy in Brugada syndrome by Andrea Sarkozy, Tim Boussy, Georgios Kourgiannides, Gian-Battista Chierchia, Sergio Richter, Tom De Potter, Peter Geelen, Francis Wellens, Marieke Dingena Spreeuwenberg, and Pedro Brugada EHJ Volume 28(3):334-344 February 5, 2007 © The European Society of Cardiology 2007. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: [email protected]

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Long-term follow-up of primary prophylactic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator therapy in Brugada syndrome

by Andrea Sarkozy, Tim Boussy, Georgios Kourgiannides, Gian-Battista Chierchia, Sergio Richter, Tom De Potter, Peter Geelen, Francis Wellens, Marieke Dingena

Spreeuwenberg, and Pedro Brugada

EHJVolume 28(3):334-344

February 5, 2007

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Examples of positive ajmaline test results.

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(A) Kaplan–Meier appropriate shock-free survival analysis in the study population.

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Example of initiation of monomorphic VT in a 64-year-old male patient taking quinidine therapy.

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(A) Kaplan–Meier IS-free survival analysis in the study population.

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Examples of IS for atrial arrhythmias with fast ventricular rates.

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