Int J Arrhythm.  2022 Sep;23(3):16. 10.1186/s42444-022-00066-y.

Electrocardiographic features in SCN5A mutation‑positive patients with Brugada and early repolarization syndromes: a systematic review and meta‑analysis

Affiliations
  • 1Cardiovascular Electrophysiology Unit, Cardiovascular Analytics Group, Hong Kong, China
  • 2Kent and Medway Medical School, Kent, Canterbury, UK
  • 3Department of Cardiology, Larnaca General Hospital, 6051 Larnaca, Cyprus
  • 4Second Department of Cardiology, Laboratory of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Evangelismos General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece
  • 5Tianjin Key Laboratory of Ionic‑Molecular Function of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Cardiology, Tianjin Institute of Cardiology, Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin 300211, China

Abstract

Background
Early repolarization syndrome (ERS) and Brugada syndrome (BrS) are both J-wave syndromes. Both can involve mutations in the SCN5A gene but may exhibit distinct electrocardiographic (ECG) differences. The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis is to investigate possible differences in ECG markers between SCN5A-positive patients with ERS and BrS.
Methods
PubMed and Embase were searched from their inception to 20 October 2021 for human studies containing the search terms “SCN5A” and “variant” and “early repolarization” or “Brugada”, with no language restrictions. Continuous variables were expressed as mean±standard deviation. PR interval, QRS duration, QTc and heart rate from the included studies were pooled to calculate a mean for each variable amongst BrS and ERS patients. A two-tailed Student’s t test was then performed to for comparisons.
Results
A total of 328 studies were identified. After full-text screening, 12 studies met our inclusion criteria and were included in this present study. One hundred and four ERS patients (mean age 30.86±14.45) and 2000 BrS patients (mean age 36.17±11.39) were studied. Our meta-analysis found that ERS patients had shorter QRS duration (90.40±9.97 vs. 114.79±20.10, P = 0.0001) and shorter corrected QT intervals (QTc) with borderline significance (393.63±40.04 vs. 416.82±37.43, P = 0.052). By contrast, no significant differences in baseline heart rate (65.15±18.78 vs. 76.06±18.78, P = 0.068) or PR intervals (197.40±34.69 vs. 191.88±35.08, P = 0.621) were observed between ERS and BrS patients.
Conclusion
BrS patients with positive SCN5A mutations exhibited prolonged QRS, indicating conduction abnormalities, whereas ERS patients with positive SCN5A mutations showed normal QRS. By contrast, whilst QTc intervals were longer in BrS than in ERS SCN5A positive patients, they were within normal limits. Further studies are needed to examine the implications of these findings for arrhythmic risk stratification.

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