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Funny waves in repolarisation and tachycardia in a patient suspected for Brugada syndrome

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The resting electrocardiogram (ECG) is diagnostic for Brugada syndrome [1]. His 2 brothers both had ECG patterns typical for Brugada syndrome, his mother had drug-induced Brugada syndrome. His father was… Click to show full abstract

The resting electrocardiogram (ECG) is diagnostic for Brugada syndrome [1]. His 2 brothers both had ECG patterns typical for Brugada syndrome, his mother had drug-induced Brugada syndrome. His father was from East Asian descent. The waves in V2 are indeed suggestive of an epsilon wave, which might be a sign for arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia, and hence an overlap situation [2]. However, there were no clinical, nor other signs for this disease, and the cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was entirely normal. Depolarising abnormalities are observed in 13% of patients with spontaneous or druginduced Brugada syndrome, without any evidence of cardiomyopathy [2]. The tachycardia was a leftsided posterior fascicular tachycardia and was easily ablated on a site with a Purkinje potential (Fig. 1 and 2). A dual-chamber implantable cardioverterdefibrillator was implanted, given the bradycardia and conduction disease. With a follow-up of 3 years, no events have been recorded. Fascicular tachycardia has in principle no relation with Brugada syndrome, whichmainly affects the right ventricular outflow tract [3]. That some molecular common link may exist cannot be excluded. Genetic analysis showed 2 missense

Keywords: funny waves; brugada syndrome; waves repolarisation; repolarisation tachycardia; tachycardia patient; syndrome

Journal Title: Netherlands Heart Journal
Year Published: 2019

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