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- Title
Exercise-induced ventricular re-polarisation changes in moderate congenital aortic valve stenosis.
- Authors
Beauséjour, Louis-Simon; Gravel, Hugo; Mawad, Wadi; Dahdah, Nagib; Curnier, Daniel; Beauséjour, Louis-Simon
- Abstract
<bold>Unlabelled: </bold>Introduction Pressure overload increases in patients with moderate aortic valvular stenosis during exercise. In the absence of symptoms, it remains difficult, however, to discriminate patients for surgery based only on pressure overload. Other parameters, such as the dispersion of ventricular re-polarisation (d-QT), which reportedly increases with the transvalvular pressure gradient, have not been fully studied in this condition.<bold>Objective: </bold>To determine the pattern of QT and d-QT response to exercise testing in children with moderate aortic valve stenosis in order to evaluate the impact of pressure overload from an electrophysiological perspective. Materials and methods In all, 15 patients were compared with 15 controls paired for age (14.8±2.5 versus 14.2±1.5 years old) and gender (66.7% male). All the patients underwent exercise stress testing with 12-lead electrocardiograph recording. QT was measured from the onset of QRS to the apex (QTa) at rest, at peak exercise, and at 1 and 3 minutes upon recovery. QT was corrected using the Fridericia equation, and d-QT was calculated.<bold>Results: </bold>Resting QTc was similar among the study groups, but increased significantly in study patients compared with the control group at maximal effort (p=0.004) and after 1 (p<0.001) and 3 (p<0.001) minutes of recovery. A significant association was identified between groups for d-QT (p=0.034), and post-hoc tests revealed a significant difference only at rest (p=0.001).<bold>Conclusions: </bold>Ventricular re-polarisation abnormalities can be unmasked and highlighted by the assessment of electrical re-polarisation during exercise challenge in patients with asymptomatic moderate aortic valve stenosis. Using QT response to exercise could be beneficial for better optimisation of risk stratification in these patients.
- Subjects
AORTIC stenosis; EXERCISE physiology; CONGENITAL heart disease; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; DOPPLER echocardiography; EXERCISE; EXERCISE tests; HEART ventricles; HEART beat; LONGITUDINAL method; RELAXATION for health; RETROSPECTIVE studies; SEVERITY of illness index
- Publication
Cardiology in the Young, 2016, Vol 26, Issue 2, p298
- ISSN
1047-9511
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1017/S1047951115000177