title: Massive pulmonary embolism mimicking electrocardiographic pattern of Brugada syndrome.
abstract: Brugada syndrome is an inherited heart disease without structural abnormalities that is thought to arise as a result of accelerated inactivation of Na channels and predominance of transient outward K current to generate a voltage gradient in the right ventricular layers. Brugada syndrome occurs in patients with structurally normal heart and predisposes patients to malignant ventricular arrhythmias. Acute pulmonary embolism has been associated with a variety of electrocardiograms,and rarely, it may mimic electrocardiographic pattern of Brugada syndrome and this condition was defined as Brugada phenocopy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Kars State Hospital, Kars, Turkey. Electronic address: aksuuu001@msn.com.
authors.forename: Uğur
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Aksu
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Erzurum Education and Research Hospital, Erzurum, Turkey.
authors.forename: Kamuran
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kalkan
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, Atatürk University, Erzurum, Turkey.
authors.forename: Oktay
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Gulcu
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, Atatürk University, Erzurum, Turkey.
authors.forename: Selim
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Topcu
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, Atatürk University, Erzurum, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ibrahim Halil
authors.initials: IH
authors.lastname: Tanboga
mesh_terms: D053840:Brugada Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004562:Electrocardiography; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000175:diagnosis*