Syndrome de Brugada révélé par une shigellose intestinale chez un patient originaire du Bénin au CHU de Saint-Etienne

Autor: Y. T. Aba, Amandine Gagneux-Brunon, Céline Cazorla, Elisabeth Botelho-Nevers, A. Da Costa, E. Bissagnene, M.F. Lutz, Frédéric Lucht, Anne Frésard
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Bulletin de la Société de pathologie exotique. 110:250-253
ISSN: 1961-9049
0037-9085
Popis: This paper is about a Brugada syndrome (BS) of accidental discovery in a patient from Benin during an intestinal shigellosis episode in the infectiology department of university hospital of Saint-Etienne, France. Authors establish a link between these two diseases. After a literature's review, they underline that BS is under-diagnosed in Africa. Furthermore, they highlight socio-cultural characteristics of sudden deaths in West Africa including BS.
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