Brugada syndrome unmasked by febrile illness.
The ionic mechanisms responsible for the electrocardiographic phenotype of the Brugada syndrome are temperature dependent. This report describes a healthy young man with ECG changes typical of Brugada syndrome that were unmasked during a febrile illness.
Kum
Leo C C
LC
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Prince of Wales Hospital, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Fung
Jeffery W H
JW
Sanderson
John E
JE
D000328:Adult; D002037:Bundle-Branch Block / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005334:Fever / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013577:Syndrome