Open AccessBrugada phenocopy caused by a compressive mediastinal tumor
Author(s) -
PérezRiera Andrés R.,
Barbosa Barros Raimundo,
DaminelloRaimundo Rodrigo,
Resende Barbosa Marianne P. C.,
de Abreu Luiz C.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
annals of noninvasive electrocardiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.494
H-Index - 48
eISSN - 1542-474X
pISSN - 1082-720X
DOI - 10.1111/anec.12509
Subject(s) - phenocopy , medicine , brugada syndrome , expansive , cardiology , electrocardiography , ventricular outflow tract , biochemistry , chemistry , compressive strength , materials science , composite material , mutant , gene
Recently, it has been shown that even experts in electrocardiography cannot differentiate the electrocardiographic pattern of genuine Brugada syndrome (BrS) from Brugada phenocopy (BrP). For this reason, this differentiation depends on the presence of established criteria both for BrS and BrP. In this manuscript, we present a patient with type 1 Brugada electrocardiographic pattern caused by expansive anterior mediastinal non‐Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) with mechanical compression on the right ventricular outflow tract. The electrocardiographic pattern disappeared rapidly after antineoplastic measures.