Majalah Kardiologi Indonesia (May 2015)

Diagnosis Sindrom Brugada

  • Edward Faisal

DOI
https://doi.org/10.30701/ijc.v35i2.397
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 35, no. 2

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Brugada syndrome is an inherited autosomal dominant disease that cause sudden death, which related with mutation of SCN5A gene, ? subunit of sodium channel. The risk Brugada syndrome in male is 8 times more than females. The average age is 40 years old, which can happen between age 1 to 77 years old. The Incidence is 5 to 66 per 10.000 people. The golden diagnostic tools is ECG, an abnormality QRS-T found in lead V1-V3. I report a case of Brugada syndrome with neither sign nor symptoms. The disease coincidental in routine medical examination.

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