Thursday, March 05, 2009

Online Article about Brugada Syndrome

I like to search the web for new or interesting information about Brugada Syndrome.

Here is a recent article that gives a good overview of the disease. It appeared in an online blog named maintained by the Faculty of Medicine at Odlar University located in Baku, Azerbaijan.

One symptom that I had not known before has to do with disrupted sleeping. The article mentions nightmares and thrashing during the night in some Brugada Syndrome patients. I know the cardiac event happens most frequently when a person is at rest, but wonder what, if any, relationship there is between the disrupted sleep and cardiac arrest from Brugada Syndrome. In other words, is the actual syndrome associated with the nightmares or thrashing, or are those symptoms independent of the disease?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

may be you should be interested in my opinions:
Bortolo Martini MD

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/dispomim.cgi?id=601144

http://digilander.libero.it/martini_syndrome/

Ginny said...

Thank you for the information, Dr. Martini. I will visit the links and read about your work.