Familial Evaluation in Idiopathic Ventricular Fibrillation: Diagnostic Yield and Significance of J Wave Syndromes

Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol. 2021 Mar;14(3):e009089. doi: 10.1161/CIRCEP.120.009089. Epub 2021 Feb 7.

¹ Cardiology Department, Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge (G.J.M., J.B.).
² Department of Cardiology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (L.J.B., S.A.G., R.J.H.).
³ Department of Cardiology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark (B.G.W., J.T.-H.).
⁴ Cardiovascular Clinical Academic Group, Molecular & Clinical Sciences Rsrch Inst, St. George's, University of London and St. George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom (B.E., C.S., E.R.B.).
⁵ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (J.B.).
⁶ Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Rsrch Inst Maastricht (CARIM) (B.v.R., P.G.V.A.), Maastricht University Medical Center, the Netherlands.
⁷ Department of Clinical Genetics (I.P.C.K.), Maastricht University Medical Center, the Netherlands.
⁸ Division of Cardiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (A.D.K.).

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

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Keywords: Brugada syndrome; echocardiography; sodium channel blocker; ventricular fibrillation.