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Emergency Medicine Journal 2006;23:e64; doi:10.1136/emj.2006.040634
© 2006 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and the College of Emergency Medicine.

EMERGENCY CASEBOOK

Brugada-like early repolarisation pattern associated with acute pericarditis

O Ozeke, M T Selcuk, S Topaloglu, O Maden, D Aras

Department of Cardiology, Yuksek Ihtisas Hospital, Ankara, Turkey

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O Ozeke
Turkiye Yuksek Ihtisas Hastanesi, Kardiyoloji Klinigi, Sihhiye, 06100 Ankara, Turkey; ozcanozeke{at}gmail.com

ABSTRACT

Two cases of acute pericarditis presented with interesting electrocardiograms resembling Brugada-like or early repolarisation patterns. This report emphasises that proper interpretation of the electrocardiogram in patients with ST-segment elevation assists the clinician in arriving at the correct diagnosis in making appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic decisions, and also that the saddleback-type ST-segment elevation cannot be a sensitive finding for the Brugada syndrome.

Abbreviations: CK-MB, creatine kinase-monoclonal band; ECG, electrocardiogram; RBBB, right bundle branch block; ST-SE, ST-segment elevation


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