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sudden adult death syndrome
(redirected from Brugada syndrome)

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sudden adult death syndrome
n
(Medicine / Pathology) the unexpected death of a young adult, usually due to undetected inherited heart disease Also called sudden death syndrome sudden cardiac death Abbrevs SADS SDS SCD


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Twenty-five brief case studies narrate the history, symptoms, and diagnosis of patients suffering from abdominal aortic aneurysm, temporal arteritis, chronic mesenteric ischemia, pericardial tamponade, oncologic cardiomyopathy, brugada syndrome, and pulmonary embolism.
His condition has been diagnosed as Brugada Syndrome, a genetic disease characterized by an abnormality in the heart's electrical system that can cause potentially fatal arrhythmias.
After help from a genetics nurse at the University Hospital of Wales she was put in contact with a heart specialist in London, and within a month the whole family had been tested for Brugada syndrome at the Heart Hospital in London - Bill and their 39-year-old daughter Andrea were found to have the same condition.
 
 
 
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