Massive pulmonary embolism mimicking electrocardiographic pattern of Brugada syndrome

Aksu, Ugur; Kalkan, Kamuran; Gulcu, Oktay; Topcu, Selim; Tanboga, İbrahim

doi:10.1016/j.ajem.2015.09.029

Massive pulmonary embolism mimicking electrocardiographic pattern of Brugada syndrome

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Aksu U., Kalkan K., Gulcu O., Topcu S., Tanboga I. H.

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE, cilt.34, sa.5, 2016 (SCI-Expanded)

Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
Cilt numarası: 34 Sayı: 5
Basım Tarihi: 2016
Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.ajem.2015.09.029
Dergi Adı: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
Atatürk Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Brugada syndrome is an inherited heart disease without structural abnormalities that is thought to arise as a result of accelerated inactivation of Na channels and predominance of transient outward K current to generate a voltage gradient in the right ventricular layers. Brugada syndrome occurs in patients with structurally normal heart and predisposes patients to malignant ventricular arrhythmias. Acute pulmonary embolism has been associated with a variety of electrocardiograms, and rarely, it may mimic electrocardiographic pattern of Brugada syndrome and this condition was defined as Brugada phenocopy [1-4].