Brugada-like electrocardiographic pattern unmasked by fever

Jpn Heart J. 2004 Jan;45(1):163-7. doi: 10.1536/jhj.45.163.

Abstract

Brugada syndrome is characterized by right bundle branch block morphology and ST-segment elevation in the right precordial leads and a propensity to develop ventricular arrhythmias. Mutations in a cardiac sodium channel gene have been linked to this syndrome, and the ionic mechanisms responsible for the electrocardiographic phenotype are temperature-dependent. This case report describes a patient in whom a typical Brugada ECG pattern developed during fever and could be reproduced at normal body temperature by administration of pilsicainide.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Body Temperature
  • Bundle-Branch Block / physiopathology*
  • Electrocardiography*
  • Fever / physiopathology*
  • Humans
  • Lidocaine / analogs & derivatives*
  • Male
  • Sodium Channel Blockers
  • Sodium Channels / genetics
  • Syndrome

Substances

  • Sodium Channel Blockers
  • Sodium Channels
  • Lidocaine
  • pilsicainide