Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 37-2005. A 35-year-old man with cardiac arrest while sleeping

N Engl J Med. 2005 Dec 8;353(23):2492-501. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcpc059033.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Clinical Conference

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Bundle-Branch Block / complications
  • Bundle-Branch Block / diagnosis*
  • Bundle-Branch Block / genetics
  • Death, Sudden, Cardiac / etiology
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Electrocardiography
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Genes, Dominant
  • Heart Arrest / etiology
  • Humans
  • Long QT Syndrome / diagnosis
  • Male
  • Mutation
  • Risk Factors
  • Sleep
  • Sodium Channels / genetics
  • Syndrome
  • Unconsciousness / etiology
  • Valproic Acid / therapeutic use
  • Ventricular Fibrillation / etiology*
  • Ventricular Fibrillation / physiopathology
  • Ventricular Fibrillation / therapy

Substances

  • Sodium Channels
  • Valproic Acid