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Brugada syndrome is one of the main causes of sudden death in young adults without a structural heart disease. This is an electrical cardiac illness secondary to a mutation of SCN5A, a gene of chromosome 3 that encodes the cardiac sodium channel. The typical ECG pattern consists of a right bundle branch block pattern with an ST-segment elevation in leads V1 through V3. Two specific types of S-T-segment...