title: Electrocardiographic patterns of the Brugada syndrome in 2 young patients with pectus excavatum.
abstract: I hypothesized that thoracic deformity of pectus excavatum may induce the Brugada-type electrocardiogram (ECG) pattern because of the presumed chronic injury to the right ventricle. Thus, I examined the 5 outpatients with pectus excavatum to determine the presence or absence of the ECG pattern of Brugada syndrome. Four of 5 study patients accompanied incomplete right bundle branch block pattern. Among these 4, 2 patients presented with Brugada-type ECG pattern, ie, right bundle branch block pattern and ST-segment elevation in the right precordial ECG leads. Both of them with Brugada-type ECG had no past history of syncope, family history of sudden death, or malignant arrhythmias on the 24-h Holter ECG recording. These observations suggest that clinically benign Brugada-type ECG pattern may appear in some patients with pectus excavatum.
authors.affiliation: Internal Medicine, Nishida Hospital, Saiki-city, Oita, Japan.
authors.forename: Hajime
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kataoka
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002037:Bundle-Branch Block / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D015716:Electrocardiography, Ambulatory; D005660:Funnel Chest / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006329:Heart Conduction System / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male