| To die in one's sleep. . . so basic to the cauldron of human fears, 
            subject matter to ancient rhymes and holy sonnets, the arts and literature, 
            laden with layers of mythology, coloring folklore with creatures of 
            the night, concoctions of superstitions, and nostrums of nightmare 
            preventions. Cloaked in mystery and dread,  it has acquired a motley 
            of names and acronyms – Sudden Unexplained Death Syndrome. SUDS, 
            Sudden Unexpected Death in Sleep, Sudden Unexplained Nocturnal Death 
            Syndrome, SUNDS, nightmare deaths, sudden night deaths 
            – as science pokes through the muddle of myth and folklore, 
            searching for etiologies and pathogenesis that can shed light into 
            this mysterious fatal affliction that visits presumably healthy young 
            men in their sleep, more commonly in the Southeast Asian and Pacific 
            Rim countries and Polynesian populations believed to have migrated 
            from South East Asia centuries ago.
 First reported in the Philippines in 1917, 'sudden 
            night deaths' or SUDS (sudden Unexpected Death in Sleep) has been 
            attributed to bangungot (bangungut 
            - from the Tagalog root words of "bangon" (to rise) and 
            "ungol" (to moan). It is a syndrome wrapped in folklore 
            and myth, that consists of a nightmare, commonly occurring in nocturnal 
            sleep, frequently after a heavy meal that is often accompanied by 
            alcohol, most often in young males, aged 25-44, presumably healthy, 
            without any known cardiac illness. 
             
              | Risk 
                  profileYoung males
 Age: 25-44
 A heavy meal
 Alcohol use
 Presumably healthy with
 no prior heart problems
 Fainting
 Family history
 of unexpected death
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                the Philippines, bangungut (SUDS) has been so linked to gluttonous 
                eating and bacchanalian drinking, to the exclusion of other symptoms 
                or warning signs. Fainting and family history do not raise red 
                flags. But South East Asian studies suggest that a history of 
                fainting with a positive family history increases the chance 
                of dying of SUDS in the next five years. 
 A review of SUDS cases (Munger and Booton) from Death Certificates 
                filed in Manila during 1948-1982 showed the same characteristics: 
                96% male, mean age 33 years, modal time of death 3:00 a.m. The 
                deaths were seasonal, peaking in December-January, and the SUDS 
                victims were more likely than diseased controls to have been born 
                outside of the Manila area.
 
 A 2003 UP health survey on SUDS among young Filipinos reported 
                43 deaths per 100,000 annually.
 |  How often bangungut becomes fatal is unknown. Many cases are never 
            reported, especially in the rural areas where dying in your sleep 
            is an accepted event in the folklore of death. Many know others who 
            died in their sleep. Many more are 'survivors' of one or more attacks, 
            with descriptive details of bangungot -type nightmares– of sleep 
            paralysis, of falling from a mountain or into a deep abyss, of the 
            creature in the dark standing by the bedside. How many of these are 
            actually near-death or near-bangungut experiences or are they merely 
            generic ingredients to culture-flavored nightmares?
   
             
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                    | Note: I have to begrudge the Ilocandia 
                      myth makers. Why the need to invent "Batibat?" 
                      To die in a bangungut nightmare is uugghh-dreadful enough. 
                      But to die with the the fat and vengeful "batibat" 
                      seating on your face. Oh, mercy me. |   
                    | "Batibat" clay sculpture 
                    by Alvin Barcelona, Brgy. Lumingon, Tiaong, Quezon (4"x5") |  |  Although there are witness reports of "moaning, groaning, gasping, 
            choking, frothing, and labored breathing," as often, patients 
            are found dead, in seeming peaceful slumber, without the sounds of 
            terror or any evidence of a terminal struggle.
 In a "macho-culture" with a penchant 
            for drinking, often to oblivion, and accompanying this libatory indulgence 
            with a smorgasbord of "pulutan," pancreatitis became the 
            popular and preferred "point-to diagnosis." (see pancreatitis, 
            below).  In a country with more than 7000 islands and more 
            than 70 indigenous communities, where albularyos and medicos minister 
            to the end-days, diagnosing fainting spells by tawas 
            and treating them with a bulong and/or orasyon, 
            where the night worlds are ruled by the frightful creatures of myths 
            and superstitions – the tikbalangs, kapres, asuwangs, white 
            ladies and pontianaks, where death's ways are accepted with funereal 
            fatalism as God's will, karma, or bangungut. — alas, the true 
            incidence of bangungut / SUDS is probably a-long-time-coming before 
            it gets revealed to the scrutiny of science.
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        | NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCIES, FOOD MYTHS, ALCOHOL,STRESS AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS
 The occurrence of SUDS in Asian populations, the 
            decline among SEA refugees after immigration to the US, the elevated 
            risk among migrants in Manila and seasonality of occurrence (Munger 
            and Booton) implicates stress, environmental factors and nutritional 
            deficiencies.
 
            
              | Alcohol has long been part of the bangungot story. However, it's role is not in causing hemorrhagic pancreatitis, but rather, in inducing potentially fatal cardiac arrhythmias. (See Brugada syndrome below) |  |  Of the Thai workers in Singapore, nutritional deficiencies 
            were implicated, particularly thiamine and potassium. However, there 
            is no information as to whether potassium levels were obtained, or 
          how severe the hypokalemia was. Stress has been considered in 
            the etiology of SUDS, reported in usually high numbers in healthy 
            young Southeast Asian men, especially in various refugee populations 
            and migrants communities. With increasing length of residence in the US, 
            SUDS rates markedly declined. But if stress alone is causative, how 
            to explain its relative absence in the many other countries ravaged by 
        war and poverty, and driven to dispersions and economic diasporas. In the Philippines,  alcohol has always been part of the bangungot narrative. However,  most cases of bangungot do not involve alcohol use; and when it does occur in the setting of heavy alcohol use or binging, or the combination of excessive alcohol and over-eating, it is  often attributed to alcohol-induced hemorrhagic pancreatitis. (See below) Besides gorging and drinking before bedtime, certain foods myths abound. 
            Some warn against big noodle meals before bedtime. Too, rice cakes 
            at bedtime. In one rural village, seasoned imbibers are afraid to combine 
            beer and balut, from an anecdotal account of a father and two sons 
            who succumbed to bangungut deaths - the deadly combination, prologue 
        to their dreadful end. | 
       
        | THE 
            SCIENCETHE OLD AND THE NEW
 Inevitably, science went forging 
            and fishing into the sea of folklore and myths. In the recent decades, 
            battling through ghouls and night hags, armed with the old and new 
            tools of technology and the disciplines of research, digging into 
            new world of genetic mutations, it has emerged partially victorious, 
            providing us alternatives to the old and overused pancreatitis-diagnosis, 
            with new theories and etiologies — the Why-What-and-How of 
            unexpected sudden nocturnal deaths, and further adding to its lengthening 
            lists of acronyms and syndromes (SADS: Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndrome 
            from Brugada, the Long QT, or Short QT syndromes).
 
 THE OLD . . .
 ACUTE 
            HEMORRHAGIC
 PANCREATITIS
 In the Philippines, the cause of 
            SUDS / bangungut has been linked to acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis 
            attributed to a hearty or gluttonous meal often downed by a hefty 
            amount of alcohol. A high salt diet, contributed to by native condiments 
            - patis and bagoong - has been implicated. Stories 
            are told of bangungut attacks with the combined indulgence of beer 
            and balut.
 
             
              | As the sole cause of 
                bangungut, pancreatitis is a hard-sell. Usually, acute pancreatis associated with excessive alcohol use,  is rarely, if ever "silent," 
                but rather quite dramatic and severe in its presentation, more 
                likely to present itself with more than an "ungol" (groan). |  |   
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              | Studies have implicated alcohol in a non-pancreatic etiologic role. A case report suggests an association between alcohol consumption and ventricular fibrillation in a patient diagnosed to with Brugada syndrome. (See below) |  |  PANCREATITIS is the inflammation of the pancreas, 
            the gland that sits behind the stomach, concerned with digestive enzyme 
            functions and production of insulin. It is connected by a ductal system 
            to the liver and the gallbladder, an anatomic detail of concern in 
            gallstone disease. Pancreatitis can be either acute or chronic. In 
            acute pancreatitis, there may be a history of excessive alcohol intake 
            or a heavy meal preceding the attack or a history of biliary colic 
            (gallstones) in the past. The rest are due to infections, vasculitis, 
            drugs, trauma, hypercalcemia, hypertriglyceridemia. Although occasionally 
            mild, often the symptomatology is rather dramatic in acute pancreatitis, 
            with nausea, vomiting, fever, abdominal pain, distention, sweating, 
            rapid pulse,and shock. Clinically, it is a hard-sell of a diagnosis 
            if it is to be solely implicated for cause of bangungut deaths. 
            As mentioned, attacks of acute pancreatitis have a rather dramatic constellation 
            of symptoms, running the course of hours to days, with a severity 
            that forces the patient to seek help or medical attention. Of course, 
            the pancreatitis could have been "silent" if the alcohol 
            was used in 'overdose' amounts, enough to cause respiratory depression, 
            seizures, shock, coma, and death.
 Still, it will not explain the many 
            cases of "bangungut" deaths in the seemingly "peaceful" 
            scenarios of dying. Also, there are many similar "night deaths" 
            where autopsies failed to show any pathologic cause. And for these, 
            the usual fall-back is the waste-basket diagnosis of "cardio-respiratory 
            arrest."
 However, although pancreatitis per se is the unlikely         pathogenic etiology, alcohol is included in the list of substances that may unmask or modulate the pathologic and potentially lethal ventricular arrhythmias that may cause  sudden cardiac death. (See below)
 . . . AND THE NEWThe 
                Brugada & QT Syndromes:
 The long and short of it
  The 
            human body has a system of quasi independent electrical circuits that 
            can be recorded through medically dedicated tools: the EMG-NCS (electromyography 
            for muscle and nerve conduction studies), the EEG (electroencephalography 
            for the study of brain waves) and the EKG or ECG (electrocardiography 
            for a print out of the heart's electrical rhythm). Fascinating, all 
            – electrical systems working in unison, with an endogenous power 
            source that usually lasts a "lifetime of average use and abuse." 
            Of these, it is the EKG that can provide information critical to the 
            immediate assessment and management of life-and-death 
            situations: heart 
            attacks and potentially fatal cardiac irregularities. To boot, it 
            can provide clues of rhythm disturbances and 
            PQRST-wave configuration abnormalities that can alert the astute clinicians 
            into raising red-flags, recognizing and preventing potential problems. 
            The ECG has been the gateway tool in the diagnoses of clinical entities 
            constituting a group called SADS (sudden 
            arrhythmia death syndrome) recognizable by its potentially fatal electrocardiographic 
            presentations (Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, idiopathic ventricular 
             fibrillation, 
            or arrhythmias caused by electrolyte imbalances). Recent studies and 
            discoveries have focused on emerging entities — the Brugada 
            syndrome, the long-QT and the short-QT syndromes — with its 
            hereditary genetic defects affecting the cardiac ion channels, stripping 
            some layers from the myths of sudden unexpected nocturnal deaths, 
            providing science, etiologies and treatment options.
 
            
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              | The V1– 
            V3 tracings compare the normal on the left with the Brugada pattern 
            on the right: a terminal R' wave in lead V1, a convex curve or "coved-type" 
            ST elevation in V1 and V2 and a saddle-shaped ST-segment elevation 
            in V3. |  BRUGADA SYNDROMEIn 
            1998, a hereditary (autosomal dominant) gene defect was found, involved 
            in the coding of protein components in the sodium channels in heart 
            cells. The channel defect causes abnormal electrical conduction in 
            the heart with resultant ventricular arrhythmias, including full-blown 
            ventricular fibrillation leading to death. Of the patients studied, 
            many presented with unexplained fainting spells.
 
 ECG PATTERNS
 The Brugada syndrome presents with 3 different ECG patterns. The classic 
          type 1 Brugada pattern consists of a right bundle branch block with 
          a right precordial injury pattern (ST-segment elevations that descend 
          and have an upward T-wave inversion ("coved type") in leads 
            V1 through V3). Types 2 and 3 have "saddle-back" ST-T waves, 
            with descending ST segments and an upright T wave; in type 2, the 
            T wave is upright or biphasic. A slight prolongation of the QT interval 
            may be noted in the right precordial leads due to the prolongation 
            of the action potential in the right ventricular epicardium. The Brugada 
            patterns differentiate from typical RBBB patterns by the absence of 
            widened S waves.
       The classic (type 1) Brugada syndrome 
            presents with the coved-type ST elevation in more than 1 right precordial 
            lead ,V1 through V3, with or without a sodium channel blocker, with 
            one of the following criteria: syncope, documented ventricular fibrillation, 
            electrophysiologic inducibility of ventricular tachycardia, positive 
            family history of cardiac death younger than age 45, nocturnal agonal 
            respiration, self-terminating polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, 
            and type 1 ST elevation in family members.           
            
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              | ECG patterns in Brugada syndrome. According to recent consensus document, type 1 ST segment elevation either spontaneously present or induced with Ajmaline/Flecainide test is considered diagnostic. Type 1 and 2 may lead to suspicion but drug challenge is required for diagnosis. The ECGs in the right and left panels are from the same patient before (right panel, type 1) and after (left panel, type 1) endovenous administration of 1 mg/kg of Ajmaline during 10 minutes. |  
              | The ECG manifestations of Brugada syndrome are often dynamic or concealed and may be unmasked or modulated by sodium channel blockers, a febrile state, vagotonic agents, alpha-adrenergic agonists, beta-adrenergic blockers, tricyclic or tetracyclic antidepressants, a combination of glucose and insulin, hypo- and hyperkalemia, hypercalcemia, and alcohol and cocaine toxicity. Brugada syndrome: second consensus conference |  
              | A case report decribed a patient with Brugada syndrome with VF (ventricular fibrillation) episodes consistently related to alcohol consumption. (EP Case Report: Watanabe et al. |   Types 2 or type 
            3 Brugada syndrome presents with ST elevations: ≥1mm in type 
            2 and <1 mm in type 1 in more than one precordial lead, with conversion 
            to type 1 Brugada ECG patters after the administration of a sodium 
            channel blocker plus one of the type 1 criteria.Fortunately, 
              these ECG patters are rare. In Japan, it is found in less than 1% 
              of the population; and in the U.S.,in less than 0.5%. Of these, most 
              will not have any problems. But the EKG pattern, coupled with a history 
              of unexplained fainting, a history of a relative dying young, raises 
              a red-flag risk of sudden death.
 In the Philippines, 
                a cross-sectional study done in 2003 to measure the prevalence of 
                Brugada type EKG pattern reported finding the Brugada type 1 (coved) 
                ECG pattern in 0.2% of the population and in 0.3% among males. The 
                prevalence of any type Brugada ECG pattern was 2%. The risk of sudden 
                death among individuals with this marker remains to be determined. 
            (http://www.jclinepi.com/article/S0895-4356(07)00434-9/abstract)
       The 
            syndrome has been linked to SUDS, causing sudden death in apparently 
            healthy young people over the age 30.  A study of patients with 
            SUNDS and their families, screened for genetic mutations in SCN5A, 
            the gene known to cause the Brugada syndrome, suggested that SUNDS 
            and the Brugada syndrome are phenotypically, genetically, and functionally 
            the same disorder. <http://hmg.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/11/3/337>In Thailand, where the estimated prevalence 
            of SUDS is 26-38 per 100,000 population, a study on patients with 
            the Brugada syndrome showed a low heart rate variability at night 
            that may predispose to the occurrence of ventricular fibrillation 
            episodes.
 A study done to evaluate the significance 
            of cardiac autonomic neuropathy (CAN) in the Brugada Syndrome concluded 
            that CAN is an important risk factor in BS, and that men are susceptible 
            to the development of cardiac events.
 The prognosis for high risk patients - abnormal 
            EKG with history of syncopal attacks or near-sudden death resuscitation 
            - is very poor, with a third at risk of a polymorphic ventricular 
          tachycardia within two years.
 Brugada in Children / Alterations in Pubertal Hormonal Landscape• Although rare in children and generally  excluded from the Brugada debate, there was a  report of 30 children and adolescents (≤16 years of age) diagnosed with the syndrome. 37% had Brugada-type EKG (1 cardiac arrest, 10 syncope) and the majority (60%) were asymptomatic. The children differed from adults in gender distribution - there was no obvious male predominance. Although it is genetic disorder of autosomal-dominant inheritance, with males and females  expected to inherit the gene equally, in adults, aged 34 to 53, it manifests invariably male, ≥90%. The hormonal landscape attempts to explain the differences: the male testosterone might reduce inward calcium currents and facilitate onset of arrhythmia by shortening of action potential while female estradiol could be "antiarrhythmic" by modulating calcium current density. The hormonal changes in puberty and their electrophysiological effects may partly explain the increase of male occurrence after puberty.
 
 TREATMENT
 • ICD (Implantable cardioverter defibrillator): At present, implantation of an automatic ICD (implantable 
            cardioverter defibrillator) is the only treatment proven effective in treating ventricular tachycardia and fibrillation and preventing sudden cardiac death in patients with the Brugada syndrome. Risks for asymptomatic patients with typical 
            electrocardiographic patterns are the same; a third will develop ventricular 
            tachycardia or fibrillation within two years.
 • Patients with Brugada syndrome and a history of cardiac arrest must be treatment with an ICD.
 • Studies have suggested that asymptomatic patients with no family history of sudden death can be managed conservatively with close follow up without an ICD.
 • However, another study suggested that inducible ventricular fibrillation in asymptomatic patients is an indication for ICD implantation, with the data from a single large study showing a 12% risk of spontaneous VF within 3 years of diagnosis.
 • Patients with intermediate characteristics present a most difficult challenge. (Brugada Syndrome Treatment & Management)
 •  Activity Restriction: Because regular physical activity can increase vagal tone and increase the likelihood of ventricular fibrillation and sudden death, patients diagnosed with Brugada syndrome should be advised against competitive sports.
 THE LONG QT SYNDROME 
            (LQTS)Like the Brugada syndrome, with its characteristic 
            hereditary ion channel and ECG abnormality, hereditary prolongation 
            of the QT interval is also associated with SADS (Sudden Arrhythmia 
            Death Syndrome). LQTS is caused by mutations of the genes for cardiac 
            potassium and sodium ion channels. The most common type is the autosomal 
            dominant Romano-Ward syndrome. While it can present with syncope and 
            seizures, In 30 to 40 percent of patients, sudden death is the only 
            event. While the cardiac events are usually precipitated by physical 
            and emotional stress, deaths can also occur in sleep. A history of 
            unexplained sudden death in a young family member is a clue.
 QT prolongation is characteristic and 
            predisposes to ventricular tachyarrhythmia – polymorphic ventricular 
            tachycardia, or torsade de pointes, which can lead to ventricular 
            fibrillation and sudden cardiac deaths. Sometimes, only a borderline 
            prolonged QT interval is seen. Another clue is the presence of T-wave 
            alternans, the severity of which correlates with cardiac events.
 Some of the highest rates of inherited 
            long QT syndrome occurs in Southeast Asian and Pacific Rim countries.
 The syndrome has more treatment options 
            than the Brugada syndrome: Beta blockers, potassium, avoidance of 
            certain drugs, permanent pacemakers, and implantable defibrillators.
 THE SHORT QT SYNDROMEA relatively new syndrome, first described 
            in 1999, belonging to the ion-channel disorders called "channelopathies," 
            hereditary short QT syndrome is an autosomal-dominant clinical-electrocardiographic 
            entity with associated gene mutations. It is characterized by a short 
            QT, frequently tall-peaked T-waves similar to a "hyperkalemic-T," 
            inducible ventricular fibrillation, episodes of syncope, a high tendency 
            for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation or life-threatening arrhythmias, 
            without any underlying structural heart disease.
 Three forms of the syndrome have been identified 
            affecting different channels. Indicated therapy for those who have 
            survived a cardiac arrest or those with a history of syncope, is the 
            implantable cardioverter-defibrillator. In its absence or inaccessibility, 
            drug therapy has the potential for prolonging the QT interval. However, 
            drug therapy has been shown to be beneficial only for the first form, 
            and ineffective for the other forms. Although it has been linked to deaths in infants, 
            children and young adults with a family background history of sudden 
            cardiac death, it is possible that many survive into a later adulthood, 
            into the mean age of deaths linked to SUDS/ SUNDS or bangungut.
 
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