Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JULY 22, 2023

Induced Brugada-type electrocardiogram, a sign for imminent malignant arrhythmias. References: [1]: Mizusawa Y, Morita H, Adler A, Havakuk O, Thollet A, Maury P, Wang DW, Hong K, Gandjbakhch E, Sacher F, Hu D, Amin AS, Lahrouchi N, Tan HL, Antzelevitch C, Probst V, Viskin S, Wilde AA. Prognostic significance of fever-induced Brugada syndrome.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JANUARY 30, 2019

Induced Brugada-type electrocardiogram, a sign for imminent malignant arrhythmias. References: [1]: Mizusawa Y, Morita H, Adler A, Havakuk O, Thollet A, Maury P, Wang DW, Hong K, Gandjbakhch E, Sacher F, Hu D, Amin AS, Lahrouchi N, Tan HL, Antzelevitch C, Probst V, Viskin S, Wilde AA. Prognostic significance of fever-induced Brugada syndrome.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Essential Reading : Full text link: AHA/ACCF/HRS Recommendations for the Standardization and Interpretation of the Electrocardiogram, Part IV: The ST Segment, T and U Waves, and the QT Interval (full text link). Heart Rhythm 2016 Feb; 13(2):527-35. Some other points: 1. An prolonged QT is longer than 85 ms - 100 ms in BBB.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Further history later: This patient personally has no further high risk features (syncope / presyncope), but her mother had sudden cardiac arrest in sleep. 2016) in the presence of spontaneous BrS ECG or drug-induced ECG. Heart Rhythm 2016. We repeated the ECG: Brugada pattern is mostly resolved.

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