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Case Reports
. 2002 Nov;25(11):1660-1.
doi: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2002.01660.x.

Brugada syndrome unmasked by febrile illness

Leo C C Kum  1 , Jeffery W H Fung, John E Sanderson
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Case Reports

Brugada syndrome unmasked by febrile illness

Leo C C Kum et al. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2002 Nov.

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.

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