Brugada syndrome; an organic syndrome

The syndrome of right bundle branch block (RBBB), ST-segment elevation and sudden death was first described in 1988 in Italy by Italian doctors from Padua in the Giornale Italiano di Cardiologia, 1,2 in Mises à Jour Cardiologiques 3 and in the American Heart Journal 4. This syndrome is now known worldwide as the “Brugada syndrome”, reflecting the name of those who described later the same entity in 1992 5.