Brugada syndrome and calcium channel mutation in a patient with congenital deaf mutism

Uğur Canpolat; Cem Coteli; Kudret Aytemir

doi:10.1016/j.ipej.2017.01.002

Brugada syndrome and calcium channel mutation in a patient with congenital deaf mutism

Indian Pacing Electrophysiol J. 2017 Jan-Feb;17(1):16-17. doi: 10.1016/j.ipej.2017.01.002. Epub 2017 Jan 9.

Authors

Uğur Canpolat¹, Cem Coteli², Kudret Aytemir²

Affiliations

¹ Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Cardiology, Ankara, Turkey. Electronic address: dru_canpolat@yahoo.com.
² Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Cardiology, Ankara, Turkey.

Abstract

To the best of our knowledge, for the first time in the literature, we described a congenitally deaf-mute patient with Brugada syndrome (BrS) in whom a mutation in L-type Ca⁺² channel [CACNA1C (Ca_v1.2α1)] was identified.

Keywords: Brugada syndrome; Calcium channelopathy; Deaf and mute.