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- Title
Tachycardia Recognition and Diagnosis from Changes in Right Atrial Pressure Waveform--A Feasibility Study.
- Authors
Kaye, Gerry C.; Astridge, Penny; Perrins, John
- Abstract
Implantable defibrillators either monitor heart rate or use a probability density function to detect ventricular fibrillation/tachycardia. As a result, they are unable to discriminate sinus tachycardia and atrial arrhythmias from malignant ventricular rhythms. We have assessed high fidelity fiber-optic pressure recordings in the right atrium during cardiac arrhythmias in 23 patients [mean age 44 years, 11 females) undergoing electrophysiological study. The unfiltered pressure signal was amplified and recorded on paper. During sinus rhythm, a constant amplitude deflection occurred during atrial systole (a wave). A characteristic waveform pattern was observed during each of the studied tachyarrhythmias, which included atrial flutter and fibrillation, atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia, atrioventricular reentrant tachycardia, and ventricular tachycardia with and without ventriculoatrial conduction. The waveform pattern allowed clear visual discrimination of the underlying arrhythmia. Mean atrial pressure was increased during all arrhythmias and did not allow discrimination of the nature of the tachycardia. High fidelity pressure recordings produced characteristic appearances for pattern recognition of each arrhythmia studied. They allowed determination of the temporal relation between electrical and mechanical cardiac events and may have potential in the detection and recognition of cardiac arrhythmias.
- Subjects
TACHYCARDIA; DIAGNOSIS; HEART beat; ARRHYTHMIA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY
- Publication
Pacing & Clinical Electrophysiology, 1991, Vol 14, Issue 9, p1384
- ISSN
0147-8389
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1540-8159.1991.tb02884.x