Clinical cardiology
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Clinical cardiology · Dec 2001
Case ReportsRight ventricular electrocardiographic leads for detection of Brugada syndrome in sudden unexplained death syndrome survivors and their relatives.
Sudden unexplained death syndrome (SUDS) is a sudden death syndrome in previously healthy Southeast Asian young adults without any structural causes of death. Many SUDS survivors show electrocardiographic (ECG) evidence of RSR' and ST elevation in leads V1 to V3, which is similar to the ECG pattern in Brugada syndrome. However, in many cases transient normalization of the ECG does not make diagnosis with standard 12-lead ECG possible. ⋯ Our data suggest that these new right ventricular leads ECG may be helpful in detecting Brugada syndrome in SUDS survivors and their relatives.