Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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2762751 | Journal of Clinical Anesthesia | 2013 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
Brugada syndrome is an electrical cardiac disease predisposing to ventricular arrhythmias in which typical electrocardiographic (ECG) features consist of nonischemic repolarization abnormalities in the right precordial leads V1-V3. The appearance of a Brugada-ECG pattern is increasingly observed in critically ill patients and is traditionally attributed to the effect of body temperature and/or drug modulation on cardiac ion channels (“acquired Brugada syndrome”). A patient with complicated malaria in whom Brugada-ECG abnormalities appeared in concomitance with fever and propofol administration is presented. The repolarization changes did not disappear until the patient's clinical course improved.
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Authors
Marco (Staff Anesthesiologist), Alessandro (Cardiology Fellow), Mohamed (Staff Cardiologist, PhD Fellow), Francesco (Cardiology Fellow), Federico (Staff Cardiologist), Giovanni Maria (Head Anesthesiologist),