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A Porcine Model of Acute Autologous Pulmonary Embolism
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Massive pulmonary embolism mimicking electrocardiographic pattern of Brugada syndrome
Uğur Aksu1, Kamuran Kalkan2, Oktay Gulcu3
1Department of Cardiology, Kars State Hospital, Kars, Turkey.
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.
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