Ablation in Brugada Syndrome: A Review of Two Cases

Alejandro Olaya-Sanchez; Pedro Sarmiento-Ruiz; Alvaro J Villamizar-Quintero; Miguel J Tejeda-Camargo; Efrain Gil; Josep Brugada

doi:10.1016/j.cpcardiol.2021.100937

Ablation in Brugada Syndrome: A Review of Two Cases

Curr Probl Cardiol. 2022 Oct;47(10):100937. doi: 10.1016/j.cpcardiol.2021.100937. Epub 2021 Jul 24.

Authors

Alejandro Olaya-Sanchez¹, Pedro Sarmiento-Ruiz², Alvaro J Villamizar-Quintero², Miguel J Tejeda-Camargo³, Efrain Gil⁴, Josep Brugada⁵

Affiliations

¹ Hospital de San Jose, Bogota D.C. Colombia - Fundacion Universitaria de Ciencias de la Salud (University Foundation of Health Sciences), Bogota D.C., Colombia. Electronic address: aolaya2000@hotmail.com.
² Department of Cardiology Hospital San Jose, Fundacion Universitaria de Ciencias de la Salud, Bogota D.C., Colombia.
³ Hospital Cardiovascular del Niño de Cundinamarca, Bogota D.C., Colombia, Cardiology Department at Hospital San Jose - Fundacion Universitaria de Ciencias de la Salud, Bogota D.C., Colombia.
⁴ Imbanaco Medical Center, Cali, Colombia.
⁵ Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Institute Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona, Spain.

PMID: 34446272
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpcardiol.2021.100937

Abstract

Brugada syndrome (BrS) is characterized by ventricular arrhythmias in patients without structural cardiac alteration. Some patients present repeated episodes of ventricular tachycardia. Epicardial catheter ablation makes it possible to decrease arrhythmic recurrence in these patients.

Publication types

Case Reports
Review

MeSH terms

Arrhythmias, Cardiac
Brugada Syndrome*
Catheter Ablation*
Electrocardiography
Heart Ventricles
Humans
Tachycardia, Ventricular*