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Brugada syndrome is a new clinical entity first described by Brugada and Brugada in 1992. It has a characteristic ECG pattern but it can be missed. We report on a Jordanian patient who has been presented with this syndrome. Introduction Brugada syndrome is one of several conditions that can cause sudden cardiac death in a patient with a structurally normal heart. Diagnosis is based on demonstration of the characteristic electrocardiographic patterns, caused by a mutation in the cardiac sodium channels
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To determine the prevalence of renal artery stenosis [RAS] and associated risk factors in patients undergoing cardiac catheterization for suspected coronary artery disease. Three hundred and fifty-four consecutive patients [71 female] were studied at the Cardiology Unit of King Abdullah University Teaching Hospital, Irbid, Jordan, between May 2002 and May 2003. Left-sided cardiac catheterization and abdominal aortography were performed to screen for coronary and renal artery disease. Of the 354 patients, 285 had coronary artery disease and 27 had RAS. Significant RAS was present in 11 patients. Patients with RAS were older [66 +/- 8 versus 59 +/- 10, mean +/- SD; p=0.004], had higher incidence of systolic hypertension [156 +/- 14 versus 130 +/- 16 mm Hg; p=0.005], diabetes mellitus [72% versus 38%; p=0.004], smoker [85% versus 55; p=0.005], and had less than 2 coronary lesions. The prevalence of significant and insignificant RAS is 3.1% and 4.5%. Diagnostic yield increase in elderly patient with less than 2 coronary lesions, elevated systolic pressure, smoking, diabetes mellitus, and electrocardiogram criteria of left ventricular hypertrophy