ACTA MEDICA
ACTA MEDICA
Acta Medica (Hradec Králové) is an English language multidisciplinary medical journal. Acta Medica publishes reviews, original articles, brief communications, case reports, announcements, and notices. The journal was founded in 1958 under the title “A Collection of Scientific Works of the Charles University’s Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové”. The journal is indexed in Chemical Abstracts, CNKI, DOAJ, EBSCO, Hinari, Index Medicus, MEDLINE, Scopus, and Ulrichsweb.

ACTA MEDICA, Vol 66 No 2 (2023), 68–71

COVID-19 Can Unveil Brugada: A Rare Case

Savalan Babapoor, Zachary Port, Philip C. Wiener, Roozbeh Tarighati Rasekhi, Ali Babapour Farrokhran, Sumeet K. Mainigi

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/18059694.2023.18
published online: 08. 11. 2023

abstract

Brugada syndrome (BRS) is a channelopathy with three characteristic electrocardiogram patterns and an increased risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD), in the absence of gross structural heart disease. Fever is shown to precipitate ventricular arrhythmias in patients with BRS. Here, we report a rare case of Brugada pattern in a patient with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) without fever. A baseline ECG should be considered for patients with COVID-19, even in the absence of fever. COVID-19 by itself may be a factor that can induce Brugada pattern ECGs.

keywords: Brugada Syndrome; Corona Virus Disease-19; ST-Elevation myocardial injury

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