Pedro Brugada

Pedro Brugada, 2010

Pedro Brugada (born August 11, 1952 in Girona ) is a Spanish cardiologist . Together with his brother Josep Brugada , he is one of the namesake of the Brugada syndrome (also Brugada-Brugada syndrome ), a rare and mostly inherited ion channel disease of the heart that can lead to sudden cardiac death, usually in early adulthood, in people with apparently completely healthy hearts .

Life

Pedro Brugada was the first of four children of Ramon Brugada (1925–1999) and Pepita Brugada, b. Terradellas, born. He studied medicine at the University of Barcelona from 1969 to 1975 and then worked in various Spanish hospitals. From 1979 to 1980 a research stay at the University of Limburg followed, in 1982 a PhD in cardiological electrophysiology. From 1982 to 1990 he was head of the clinical electrophysiology laboratory at Maastricht University Hospital , and from 1988 to 1990 he was also head of the coronary heart disease department at the same facility . In 1991 Brugada moved to Aalst , where he was head of the electrophysiology department of the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwziekenhuis until 2006. Since 2006 he has been running the Heart Rhythm Management Center at the University Hospital in Brussels .

Brugada syndrome

In 1992 the brothers Pedro and Josep Brugada described eight patients who had been successfully resuscitated after cardiac arrest and who all showed a special form of right bundle branch block on the electrocardiogram (EKG) , but otherwise showed no signs of an organic heart disease.

literature

Ingrid Torjesen: Pioneers in Cardiology: Pedro Brugada, MD, PhD. In: Circulation . 117, 2008, pp. 137-142, doi : 10.1161 / CIRCULATIONAHA.107.188513 .

Individual evidence

↑ J. Brugada, P. Brugada, R. Brugada: The syndrome of right bundle branch block ST segment elevation in V1 to V3 and sudden death - the Brugada syndrome. In: Europace. Volume 1, Number 3, July 1999, pp. 156-166, ISSN 1099-5129 . doi : 10.1053 / eupc.1999.0033 . PMID 11225790 . (Review).
↑ Ramon Brugada Senior Foundation ( Memento July 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed April 15, 2007.
^ Healthcare Belgium: Pedro Brugada, MD, PhD (CV; PDF; 44 kB), accessed on November 18, 2012.
^ P. Brugada, J. Brugada: Right bundle branch block, persistent ST segment elevation and sudden cardiac death: a distinct clinical and electrocardiographic syndrome. A multicenter report. In: Journal of the American College of Cardiology . Volume 20, Number 6, November 1992, pp. 1391-1396, ISSN 0735-1097 . PMID 1309182 .

personal data
SURNAME	Brugada, Pedro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Spanish cardiologist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 11, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH	Girona , Spain

[1] J. Brugada, P. Brugada, R. Brugada: The syndrome of right bundle branch block ST segment elevation in V1 to V3 and sudden death - the Brugada syndrome. In: Europace. Volume 1, Number 3, July 1999, pp. 156-166, ISSN 1099-5129 . doi : 10.1053 / eupc.1999.0033 . PMID 11225790 . (Review).

[2] Ramon Brugada Senior Foundation ( Memento July 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed April 15, 2007.

[3] Healthcare Belgium: Pedro Brugada, MD, PhD (CV; PDF; 44 kB), accessed on November 18, 2012.

[4] P. Brugada, J. Brugada: Right bundle branch block, persistent ST segment elevation and sudden cardiac death: a distinct clinical and electrocardiographic syndrome. A multicenter report. In: Journal of the American College of Cardiology . Volume 20, Number 6, November 1992, pp. 1391-1396, ISSN 0735-1097 . PMID 1309182 .