Characterized by a coved-type ST-segment elevation in the right precordial leads of the electrocardiogram (ECG), the Brugada syndrome has a genetic basis that thus far has been linked only to ...

Brugada syndrome (BrS) is a rare but potentially life-threatening genetic heart condition that can lead to abnormal heart rhythms, including the life-threatening arrhythmia known as ventricular ...

Learn about common heart conditions like Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Channelopathies that can lead to unexpected cardiac ...

Brugada syndrome (BrS) is a genetic heart condition that can lead to dangerous heart rhythms and sudden cardiac death, particularly in young adults. It is characterized by specific changes in the ...

Brugada syndrome (BrS) was initially described in 1992 by Josep ... but may be the result of a complex interplay of gender- and age-dependent genetic factors and other variables that modulate the ...

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China 2 Department of Nuclear Medicine, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China ...

Brugada syndrome is a rare genetic disorder that causes heart arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death. “Most kids that go through that, unfortunately, don’t survive,” says Harma Turbendian ...

Right now, approximately 20 billion red blood cells are busy traveling through your blood vessels. They are delivering oxygen to all the different tissues in your body and removing carbon dioxide to ...

A local boy is safely recovering at home thanks to the alertness of his older brother after sudden heart failure nearly ended his life.

Even though a large proportion of cancer patients carry genetic mutations that make them more susceptible to cancer, only a small percentage of them — and their family members — undergo ...

For 30 years, researchers have known that Huntington's is caused by an inherited mutation in the Huntingtin (HTT) gene, but they didn't know how the mutation causes brain cell death. A study ...