Brugada phenocopy: review and сlinical case

• Kocharova Kristina G.
• E.M. Smirnova
• Duplyakov Dmitriy V.

Abstract

Brugada syndrome (BS) is a disorder characterized by high frequency of noncоrоnary sudden death in young adults (more than 50%). Brugada Phenocopy (BP) is a clinical phenomenon, which differs from true etiology of innate BS and reveals in a variety of clinical conditions such as myocardial ischemia, thromboembolism of pulmonary artery, electrolyte disorders and other conditions. In the article development factors, clinical implications and BP diagnosis is discussed. Description of the clinical case (63-year-old men with Brugada-similar changes on the EEG with a background of acute myocardial ischemia) is given.

Keywords:Brugada syndrome, phenocopy Brugada, differential diagnosis

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