Brugada syndrome, Brugada phenocopy or none?

Not All Brugada Electrocardiogram Patterns are Brugada Syndrome or Brugada Phenocopy

Address for Correspondence: Dr. Grace Xu, Department of Medicine, Queen’s University School of Medicine, Kingston, Canada Phone: 647 234 6926 e-mail: [email protected] Received: 31 May 2017 Accepted: 15 September 2017 • DOI: 10.4274/balkanmedj.2017.0621 Available at www.balkanmedicaljournal.org Cite this article as: Xu G, Gottschalk BH, Kocabaş U, Baranchuk A. Not All Brugada Electrocardiogram P...

Unusual ST-Segment Elevation in the Anterolateral Precordial Leads: Ischemia, Brugada Phenocopy, Brugada Syndrome, All, or None?

The patient is a 65-year-old white male with history of type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, chronic smoking, and prior stroke with residual left hemiparesis and aphasia. His medication included losartan, furosemide, simvastatin, and metformin. He was admitted to the emergency room in cardiac arrest and was quickly resuscitated with cardiopulmonary resuscitation and external electric cardiov...

Expert cardiologists cannot distinguish between Brugada phenocopy and Brugada syndrome electrocardiogram patterns.

AIMS Brugada phenocopies (BrPs) are electrocardiogram (ECG) patterns that are identical to true Brugada syndrome (BrS) but are induced by various clinical conditions. The concept that both ECG patterns are visually identical has not been formally demonstrated. The aim of our study was to determine if experts on BrS were able to accurately distinguish between the BrS and BrP ECG patterns. METH...

Brugada phenocopy emerging as a new concept.

Brugada syndrome.

Brugada syndrome is a rare cardiac arrhythmia characterized by electrocardiographic right bundle branch block and persistent ST-segment elevation in the right precordial leads. It is associated with ventricular fibrillation and a high risk for sudden cardiac death, predominantly in younger males with structurally normal hearts. Patients can remain asymptomatic, and electrocardiographic patterns...