Open AccessSodium channel blockade unmasked Brugada electrocardiographic pattern in a patient with complete right bundle branch block and early repolarization in the lateral leads
Author(s) -
Konishi Shozo,
Minamiguchi Hitoshi,
Okuyama Yuji,
Sakata Yasushi
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
clinical case reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 9
ISSN - 2050-0904
DOI - 10.1002/ccr3.636
Subject(s) - medicine , blockade , right bundle branch block , brugada syndrome , repolarization , bundle branch block , cardiology , sodium channel , electrocardiography , block (permutation group theory) , heart block , anesthesia , electrophysiology , sodium , combinatorics , organic chemistry , receptor , mathematics , chemistry
Key Clinical Message Early repolarization syndrome ( ERS ) and Brugada syndrome (BrS) share many electrocardiographic and clinical features, and recently have been collectively grouped as J wave syndrome. However, the effects of sodium channel blockers on the J waves differ greatly between ERS and BrS.