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- Title
Spatial Aspects of Ventricular Repolarization in Postinfarction Patients.
- Authors
Dilaveris, Polychronis; Gialafos, Elias; Pantazis, Antonios; Synetos, Andreas; Triposkiadis, Filippos; Stamatelopoulos, Stamatios; Gialafos, John
- Abstract
QT dispersion has been proposed to reflect the heterogeneity of ventricular repolarization, but a poor reproducibility limits its clinical usefulness. Spatial vectorcardiographic descriptors constitute a novel approach to quantify ventricular repolarization. To test the ability of vectorcardiographic descriptors to discriminate among different subsets of postinfarction patients, 50 consecutively recruited patients with acute MI, 50 patients with history of an old (> 6 months) Ml and 50 healthy controls were evaluated. The maximum and minimum QT and JT intervals and QT and JT dispersion were manually measured from a digitally recorded 12-lead ECG. X, Y, and Z leads were reconstructed from the 12-lead ECG. The amplitude of the maximum spatial T vector (spatial T amplitude), the angle between the maximum spatial QRS and T vectors (spatial QHS-T angle), and the frontal plane QBS-T angle were automatically calculated. The spatial T amplitude and the spatial QRS-T angle did not differ between patients with a recent and those with an old MI (P = 1), QT dispersion was significantly lower in patients with an old MI than in patients with a recent one (P = 0.002). The spatial repolarization descriptors showed better short-term reproducibility than the dispersion indices. In conclusion, the spatial T amplitude and the spatial QRS-T angle are accurate measures of ventricular repolarization that do not differ between patients with recent and those with old MI. The different QT dispersion values observed in this study between the two post-MI groups should be considered cautiously because of the low accuracy of the manual measurements.
- Subjects
INFARCTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ventricles; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; HEART disease diagnosis
- Publication
Pacing & Clinical Electrophysiology, 2001, Vol 24, Issue 2, p157
- ISSN
0147-8389
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1046/j.1460-9592.2001.00157.x