Not All Brugada Electrocardiogram Patterns are Brugada Syndrome or Brugada Phenocopy

Grace Xu

doi:10.4274/balkanmedj.2017.0621

Grace Xu¹, Byron H. Gottschalk², Umut Kocabaş³, Adrian Baranchuk¹

¹Department of Medicine, Queen’s University School of Medicine, Kingston, Canada
²Department of Cardiac Sugery, Western University School of Medicine, Ontario, Canada
³Clinic of Cardiology, Soma State Hospital, Manisa, Turkey

DOI : 10.4274/balkanmedj.2017.0621

Pages : 593-593

We thank Dr. Arı and Ekici for using the term Brugada phenocopies in their literature; however, we would like to emphasise that Brugada electrocardiogram patterns induced by sodium channel blockers should not be classified as Brugada phenocopies.

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