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Europace Advance Access published online on August 3, 2006
Europace, doi:10.1093/europace/eul087
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© The European Society of Cardiology 2006. All rights reserved
Received December 20, 2005
Accepted May 16, 2006

Article

Negative flecainide test in Brugada syndrome patients with previous positive response

Mauricio Abello 1, José L. Merino 1 *, Rafael Peinado 1, and Mariana Gnoatto 1

1 Laboratory of Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, Division of Cardiology, ‘La Paz’ University Hospital, Paseo de la Castellana, 261, 28046 Madrid, Spain

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
José L. Merino, E-mail: jlmerino{at}secardiologia.es


  Abstract

Class I antiarrhythmic drug infusion has been established as the standard test to unmask Brugada syndrome. This report presents two patients with Brugada syndrome with positive flecainide response which was not reproducible in a subsequent test.

Keywords: Flecainide; Brugada syndrome; Electrocardiogram.
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