Importance of Comprehensive Assessment in Brugada Syndrome. Reply to Kataoka, N.; Imamura, T. How to Diagnose and Risk Stratify Brugada Syndrome. Comment on "Matusik et al. Twelve-Lead ECG, Holter Monitoring Parameters, and Genetic Testing in Brugada Syndrome: Insights from Analysis of Multigenerational Family with a History of Sudden Cardiac Arrest during Physical Activity. J. Clin. Med. 2023, 12, 6581"

Paweł T Matusik; Piotr Bijak; Magdalena Kaźnica-Wiatr; Marek Karpiński; Patrycja S Matusik; Andrzej Maziarz; Piotr Podolec; Jacek Lelakowski

doi:10.3390/jcm13030811

Importance of Comprehensive Assessment in Brugada Syndrome. Reply to Kataoka, N.; Imamura, T. How to Diagnose and Risk Stratify Brugada Syndrome. Comment on "Matusik et al. Twelve-Lead ECG, Holter Monitoring Parameters, and Genetic Testing in Brugada Syndrome: Insights from Analysis of Multigenerational Family with a History of Sudden Cardiac Arrest during Physical Activity. J. Clin. Med. 2023, 12, 6581"

J Clin Med. 2024 Jan 31;13(3):811. doi: 10.3390/jcm13030811.

Authors

Paweł T Matusik^{1

2}, Piotr Bijak³, Magdalena Kaźnica-Wiatr⁴, Marek Karpiński⁵, Patrycja S Matusik^{6

7}, Andrzej Maziarz², Piotr Podolec^{1

4}, Jacek Lelakowski^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, 31-202 Kraków, Poland.
² Department of Electrocardiology, St. John Paul II Hospital, 31-202 Kraków, Poland.
³ Cardiology Outpatient Clinic, St. John Paul II Hospital, 31-202 Kraków, Poland.
⁴ Department of Cardiac and Vascular Diseases, St. John Paul II Hospital, 31-202 Kraków, Poland.
⁵ Genetic Counselling Outpatient Clinic, St. John Paul II Hospital, 31-202 Kraków, Poland.
⁶ Department of Diagnostic Imaging, University Hospital, 30-688 Kraków, Poland.
⁷ Department of Radiology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, 31-501 Kraków, Poland.

Abstract

We would like to thank Dr. Imamura for their interest in our study and their valuable comments on diagnostics and risk stratification in Brugada syndrome (BrS) [...].

Grants and funding

The work discussed in this publication was supported by the Faculty of Medicine of Jagiellonian University Medical College (Leading National Research Centre 2012–2017) and by other funds assigned by the Jagiellonian University Medical College (including K/DSC/005272, N41/DBS/000517). P.T.M was supported by the National Science Centre, Poland (grant number: 2021/05/X/NZ5/01511) and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education stipend for outstanding young scientists. The discussed study was partly presented during the 45th International Congress on Electrocardiology, the joint meeting of the 45th Congress of the International Society of Electrocardiology (ISE) and the 18th Congress of the International Society for Holter and Noninvasive Electrocardiology (ISHNE), Chiba, Japan, which was supported by the Polish Cardiac Society grant.