title: Brugada syndrome unmasked by febrile illness.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Prince of Wales Hospital, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
authors.forename: Leo C C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Kum
authors.forename: Jeffery W H
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Fung
authors.forename: John E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Sanderson
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002037:Bundle-Branch Block / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005334:Fever / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013577:Syndrome