Active clinical trials for "Brugada Syndrome"

Brugada syndrome (BrS) is the leading cause of sudden death in young Asian adults including Thailand. This syndrome may be hereditary and involve mutations in certain genes. Aim of the study is to identify the relationship between genetic variants and the diagnosis/clinical severity of patients with BrS.

Although for many years the Brugada syndrome has been labelled as a purely electrical disease in the structurally normal heart, the evolution of imaging techniques has enabled the discovery of subtle morphofunctional alterations in some of the Brugada syndrome patients. We will use new echocardiographic techniques to assess cardiac function in these patients and new parameters will be evaluated for their prognostic value as risk stratificators.

Whether a mapping algorithm "Ripple-mapping" is able to rapidly identify the areas of long-duration multicomponent electrograms which constitute the targets for ablation for an automated strategy remains to be assessed.