Abstract:The story of this clinical study began with a patient I encountered as a post-graduate student on night duty at Juntendo University Hospital in 1989. The patient was diagnosed as idiopathic ventricular fibrillation (IVF) with incomplete right bundle branch block and a bizarrely shaped ST segment elevation in V 1-3 . He had a history of sick sinus syndrome (SSS) one year earlier. Three years after that encounter, the Brugada brothers reported eight patients with IVF whose ECG findings were very similar to those… Show more
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