CACNB2-Related Brugada Syndrome Type 4
CACNB2-Related Brugada Syndrome Type 4 is a heart-rhythm disorder that can cause dangerous fast rhythms in the lower chambers of the heart (ventricular arrhythmias) and fainting or sudden cardiac ...
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Brugada Syndrome Caused by Mutation in CACNB2
Brugada syndrome caused by mutation in CACNB2 is a heart rhythm condition that makes the heart’s electrical system unstable. It can cause dangerous fast rhythms from the bottom chambers of the heart ...
Brugada Syndrome 4
Brugada syndrome 4 is a heart rhythm condition. It affects the tiny electrical signals that make your heart beat. In Brugada syndrome, those signals do not travel normally through the top right side ...
CACNA1C-Related Brugada Syndrome
CACNA1C-related Brugada syndrome is a heart rhythm problem. It makes the lower chambers of the heart (the ventricles) beat in a dangerous way. It can cause fainting or even sudden death in people ...
Brugada Syndrome Caused by a CACNA1C Mutation
Brugada syndrome (BrS) is a heart rhythm condition. It affects the heart’s electrical system and can cause dangerous fast rhythms from the lower chambers (ventricles). The typical sign is a special ...
Brugada Syndrome 3
Brugada syndrome 3 is a genetic heart-rhythm disorder caused by changes (variants) in a calcium-channel gene called CACNA1C. The gene change reduces the heart’s L-type calcium current. This can ...
Sudden Unexplained Nocturnal Death Syndrome (SUNDS)
Sudden unexplained nocturnal death syndrome (SUNDS) is a sudden death that happens during sleep in people who seemed healthy and whose autopsy shows no clear cause. Over the last few decades, doctors ...
Sudden Unexplained Death Syndrome (SUDS)
Sudden unexplained death syndrome is also written as SUDS or SUDY (sudden unexplained death in the young). When the death happens during sleep it is often called sudden unexplained nocturnal death ...
Pokkuri Death Syndrome (PDS)
Pokkuri Death Syndrome (PDS) is a traditional Japanese name for sudden, unexpected death during sleep in people with no obvious heart disease on autopsy. “Pokkuri” in Japanese means “suddenly and ...
Idiopathic Ventricular Fibrillation, Brugada Type
Idiopathic ventricular fibrillation, Brugada type is a heart rhythm problem where the lower chambers of the heart (the ventricles) suddenly beat in a very fast and chaotic way (ventricular ...
Dream Disease
“Dream disease” is known as dream-related sleep disorders, especially nightmare disorder (also called dream anxiety disorder) and other parasomnias that center on disturbing dreams, dream enactment, ...
Brugada-Type Idiopathic Ventricular Fibrillation
Brugada-type idiopathic ventricular fibrillation means a person has very fast, chaotic heartbeats (ventricular fibrillation) even though the heart looks normal on scans, and the ECG shows a Brugada ...
Bangungut Syndrome
Bangungut is a Filipino word that literally relates to a terrifying nightmare. In medicine, it is the local name for Sudden Unexplained Nocturnal Death Syndrome (SUNDS)—a condition where a seemingly ...
Brugada Syndrome
Brugada syndrome is an inherited heart rhythm problem. It affects the way tiny “ion channels” move electricity in the heart’s cells. This can create a special ECG pattern in the right chest leads ...
Ventilator Lung in Newborns
Ventilator lung in newborns means damage to a baby’s lungs caused or worsened by mechanical breathing support. The ventilator can save life, but if pressures, volumes, or oxygen levels are too high ...
Perinatal Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (BPD)
Perinatal bronchopulmonary dysplasia is a long-lasting lung disease that begins around birth in very small or very early babies. The air sacs and small airways in the lungs are still immature. After ...
Chronic Lung Disease of Prematurity
Chronic lung disease of prematurity means a baby born very early has lungs that are not fully developed and get injured after birth. The lungs do not make enough tiny air sacs (alveoli). The blood ...
Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (BPD) of the Newborn
Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is a long-lasting lung problem that affects some premature babies. It happens when a baby is born early and the lungs are still immature. The baby often needs help to ...
Congenital (Bronchogenic) Bronchial Cysts
A congenital bronchial (bronchogenic) cyst is a fluid-filled pocket that forms before birth from an early mistake when the baby’s windpipe and airways are developing. It comes from the primitive ...
Bronchogenic Cyst
A bronchogenic cyst is a congenital (born-with) fluid-filled pocket that develops when the early foregut (the tissue that becomes the airway) buds abnormally during weeks 4–7 of pregnancy. The cyst ...
