Brugada Phenocopy: New Terminology and Proposed Classification

Brugada phenocopy emerging as a new concept.

Not All Brugada Electrocardiogram Patterns are Brugada Syndrome or Brugada Phenocopy

Address for Correspondence: Dr. Grace Xu, Department of Medicine, Queen’s University School of Medicine, Kingston, Canada Phone: 647 234 6926 e-mail: [email protected] Received: 31 May 2017 Accepted: 15 September 2017 • DOI: 10.4274/balkanmedj.2017.0621 Available at www.balkanmedicaljournal.org Cite this article as: Xu G, Gottschalk BH, Kocabaş U, Baranchuk A. Not All Brugada Electrocardiogram P...

Expert cardiologists cannot distinguish between Brugada phenocopy and Brugada syndrome electrocardiogram patterns.

AIMS Brugada phenocopies (BrPs) are electrocardiogram (ECG) patterns that are identical to true Brugada syndrome (BrS) but are induced by various clinical conditions. The concept that both ECG patterns are visually identical has not been formally demonstrated. The aim of our study was to determine if experts on BrS were able to accurately distinguish between the BrS and BrP ECG patterns. METH...

Ischemic Brugada phenocopy during ablation of ventricular tachycardia

We examined the report by Hori et al. with specific interest in their description of a Brugada ECG (electrocardiogram) pattern observed during ablation of ventricular tachycardia (VT) [1]. Their case provides an important contribution to an expanding database of ischemic Brugada phenocopies (BrP) [2,3]. BrP are characterized by ECG patterns identical to those of Brugada syndrome (BrS), but are ...

Transient Brugada phenocopy during evolving ischemic right bundle branch block

A “Brugada phenocopy” (BrP) is a clinical presentation exhibiting the same electrocardiographic characteristics of true Brugada syndrome (BrS) in different clinical scenarios. We report the clinical case of a 59-year-old male patient with acute chest pain depicting BrP followed by extensive convex ST-segment elevation due to proximal thrombosis of the left descending coronary artery. Following ...