Transient Brugada Pattern Induced by Loperamide Abuse

Brugada syndrome (BrS) is classically a malignant, genetically determined, arrhythmic syndrome manifesting as syncope or sudden cardiac death (SCD) in individuals with structurally normal hearts.( )An exceedingly rare cause of an induced electrocardiogram (ECG) pattern mimicking BrS is secondary to...

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Autores principales: Atoot, Ali, Sholem, Scott, Khaddash, Ibrahim, Zuberi, Jamshed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7282371/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32528773
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8037
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author Atoot, Ali
Sholem, Scott
Khaddash, Ibrahim
Zuberi, Jamshed
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description Brugada syndrome (BrS) is classically a malignant, genetically determined, arrhythmic syndrome manifesting as syncope or sudden cardiac death (SCD) in individuals with structurally normal hearts.( )An exceedingly rare cause of an induced electrocardiogram (ECG) pattern mimicking BrS is secondary to loperamide abuse. The following case describes the onset of a transient Brugada pattern secondary to loperamide abuse in a young healthy male. 
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spelling pubmed-72823712020-06-10 Transient Brugada Pattern Induced by Loperamide Abuse Atoot, Ali Sholem, Scott Khaddash, Ibrahim Zuberi, Jamshed Cureus Cardiology Brugada syndrome (BrS) is classically a malignant, genetically determined, arrhythmic syndrome manifesting as syncope or sudden cardiac death (SCD) in individuals with structurally normal hearts.( )An exceedingly rare cause of an induced electrocardiogram (ECG) pattern mimicking BrS is secondary to loperamide abuse. The following case describes the onset of a transient Brugada pattern secondary to loperamide abuse in a young healthy male.  Cureus 2020-05-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7282371/ /pubmed/32528773 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8037 Text en Copyright © 2020, Atoot et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Atoot, Ali
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Transient Brugada Pattern Induced by Loperamide Abuse
title Transient Brugada Pattern Induced by Loperamide Abuse
title_full Transient Brugada Pattern Induced by Loperamide Abuse
title_fullStr Transient Brugada Pattern Induced by Loperamide Abuse
title_full_unstemmed Transient Brugada Pattern Induced by Loperamide Abuse
title_short Transient Brugada Pattern Induced by Loperamide Abuse
title_sort transient brugada pattern induced by loperamide abuse
topic Cardiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7282371/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32528773
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8037
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