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Ivonina NI, Ivonin AG, Roshchevskaya IM. Body Surface Potential Mapping during Ventricular Depolarization in Athletes with Prolonged PQ Interval after Exercise. Arq Bras Cardiol 2024; 121:e20230179. [PMID: 38451560 PMCID: PMC11081108 DOI: 10.36660/abc.20230179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2023] [Revised: 09/01/2023] [Accepted: 10/25/2023] [Indexed: 03/08/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Prolongation of the PQ interval, generally associated with an atrioventricular conduction delay, may be related to changes in intraventricular impulse spreading. OBJECTIVE To assess, using body surface potential mapping (BSPM), the process of ventricular depolarization in athletes with prolonged PQ intervals at rest and after exercise. METHODS The study included 7 cross-country skiers with a PQ interval of more than 200 ms (Prolonged-PQ group) and 7 with a PQ interval of less than 200 ms (Normal-PQ group). The BSPM from 64 unipolar torso leads was performed before (Pre-Ex) and after the bicycle exercise test (Post-Ex). Body surface equipotential maps were analyzed during ventricular depolarization. The significance level was 5%. RESULTS Compared to Normal-PQ athletes, the first and second periods of the stable position of cardiac potentials on the torso surface were longer, and the formation of the "saddle" potential distribution occurred later, at Pre-Ex, in Prolonged-PQ athletes. At Post-Ex, the Prolonged-PQ group showed a shortening of the first and second periods of stable potential distributions and a decrease in appearance time of the "saddle" phenomenon relative to Pre-Ex (to the values near to those of the Normal-PQ group). Additionally, at Post-Ex, the first inversion of potential distributions and the total duration of ventricular depolarization in Prolonged-PQ athletes decreased compared to Pre-Ex and with similar values in Normal-PQ athletes. Compared to Normal-PQ athletes, the second inversion was longer at Pre-Ex and Post-Ex in Prolonged-PQ athletes. CONCLUSION Prolonged-PQ athletes had significant differences in the temporal characteristics of BSPM during ventricular depolarization both at rest and after exercise as compared to Normal-PQ athletes.
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- Natalya I. Ivonina
- Komi Science Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of SciencesDepartment of Comparative CardiologySyktyvkarFederação RussaDepartment of Comparative Cardiology – Komi Science Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Syktyvkar – Federação Russa
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- Komi Science Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of SciencesDepartment of Comparative CardiologySyktyvkarFederação RussaDepartment of Comparative Cardiology – Komi Science Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Syktyvkar – Federação Russa
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- Komi Science Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of SciencesDepartment of Comparative CardiologySyktyvkarFederação RussaDepartment of Comparative Cardiology – Komi Science Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Syktyvkar – Federação Russa
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Payne JE, Woods C, Elshazly MB, Matthews A, Kroman A, Feng Z, Rabinkova A, Ghadban R, Dhakal B, Winterfield J. A novel automated peak frequency annotation algorithm for identifying deceleration zones and ventricular tachycardia ablation sites. Heart Rhythm 2024; 21:27-33. [PMID: 37852563 DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2023.10.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2023] [Revised: 10/09/2023] [Accepted: 10/11/2023] [Indexed: 10/20/2023]
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BACKGROUND Current annotation of local fractionated signals during ventricular electroanatomic mapping (EAM) requires manual input subject to variability and error. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to evaluate a novel peak frequency (PF) annotation software for its ability to automatically detect late potentials (LPs) and local abnormal ventricular activity (LAVA), determine an optimal range for display, and assess its impact on isochronal late activation mapping (ILAM). METHODS EAM data from 25 patients who underwent ventricular tachycardia (VT) ablation were retrospectively analyzed. Samplings of electrogram PFs from areas of normal bipolar voltage, areas of low voltage, and areas of low voltage with fractioned signals were performed. An optimal range of frequency display was identified from these patients and applied to a validation cohort of 10 prospective patients to assess high PF within scar as a predictor of VT ablation target sites, in particular deceleration zones (DZs) identified by ILAM, LP, and LAVA. RESULTS Voltage and PF ranges of normal endocardial tissue varied widely. Using 220 Hz as a frequency cutoff value in areas of low bipolar voltage, areas of high fractionation were identified with sensitivity of 91% and specificity of 85% There was no significant reduction in targeted DZ surface areas, and colocalization with DZs was observed in all cases. Applied to the prospective cohort, PF predicted fractionated areas and DZ in 9 of 10 patients. CONCLUSION A PF annotation algorithm with a cutoff of 220 Hz accurately identifies areas of fractioned signals and accurately predicts DZs during ILAM.
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- Joshua E Payne
- Division of Cardiology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina.
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- Sutter Health, Cal Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California
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- Division of Cardiology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
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- Division of Cardiology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
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- Sutter Health, Cal Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California
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- Cardiovascular Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
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- Division of Cardiology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
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- Division of Cardiology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
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Munoz FDC, Futyma P. Integration of new mapping tools into remote navigation systems: every journey begins with a single step. J Interv Card Electrophysiol 2023; 66:1965-1966. [PMID: 37303028 DOI: 10.1007/s10840-023-01587-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2023] [Accepted: 06/01/2023] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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- St. Joseph's Heart Rhythm Center, Rzeszów, Poland
- University of Rzeszów, Rzeszów, Poland
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O'Grady G, Varghese C, Schamberg G, Calder S, Du P, Xu W, Tack J, Daker C, Mousa H, Abell TL, Parkman HP, Ho V, Bradshaw LA, Hobson A, Andrews CN, Gharibans AA. Principles and clinical methods of body surface gastric mapping: Technical review. Neurogastroenterol Motil 2023; 35:e14556. [PMID: 36989183 PMCID: PMC10524901 DOI: 10.1111/nmo.14556] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2022] [Revised: 01/29/2023] [Accepted: 02/12/2023] [Indexed: 03/30/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Chronic gastric symptoms are common, however differentiating specific contributing mechanisms in individual patients remains challenging. Abnormal gastric motility is present in a significant subgroup, but reliable methods for assessing gastric motor function in clinical practice are lacking. Body surface gastric mapping (BSGM) is a new diagnostic aid, employs multi-electrode arrays to measure and map gastric myoelectrical activity non-invasively in high resolution. Clinical adoption of BSGM is currently expanding following studies demonstrating the ability to achieve specific patient subgrouping, and subsequent regulatory clearances. An international working group was formed in order to standardize clinical BSGM methods, encompassing a technical group developing BSGM methods and a clinical advisory group. The working group performed a technical literature review and synthesis focusing on the rationale, principles, methods, and clinical applications of BSGM, with secondary review by the clinical group. The principles and validation of BSGM were evaluated, including key advances achieved over legacy electrogastrography (EGG). Methods for BSGM were reviewed, including device design considerations, patient preparation, test conduct, and data processing steps. Recent advances in BSGM test metrics and reference intervals are discussed, including four novel metrics, being the 'principal gastric frequency', BMI-adjusted amplitude, Gastric Alimetry Rhythm Index™, and fed: fasted amplitude ratio. An additional essential element of BSGM has been the introduction of validated digital tools for standardized symptom profiling, performed simultaneously during testing. Specific phenotypes identifiable by BSGM and the associated symptom profiles were codified with reference to pathophysiology. Finally, knowledge gaps and priority areas for future BSGM research were also identified by the working group.
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- Gregory O'Grady
- Department of Surgery, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Alimetry Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand
- Auckland Bioengineering Institute, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Surgery, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Surgery, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Alimetry Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Alimetry Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand
- Auckland Bioengineering Institute, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Surgery, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Gastroenterology, University Hospitals, Leuven, Belgium
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Lustgarten Motility Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Western Sydney University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Surgery, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Alimetry Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand
- Auckland Bioengineering Institute, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Schamberg G, Calder S, Varghese C, Xu W, Wang WJ, Ho V, Daker C, Andrews CN, O'Grady G, Gharibans AA. Comparison of Gastric Alimetry ® body surface gastric mapping versus electrogastrography spectral analysis. Sci Rep 2023; 13:14987. [PMID: 37696955 PMCID: PMC10495352 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-41645-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2023] [Accepted: 08/29/2023] [Indexed: 09/13/2023] Open
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Electrogastrography (EGG) non-invasively evaluates gastric motility but is viewed as lacking clinical utility. Gastric Alimetry® is a new diagnostic test that combines high-resolution body surface gastric mapping (BSGM) with validated symptom profiling, with the goal of overcoming EGG's limitations. This study directly compared EGG and BSGM to define performance differences in spectral analysis. Comparisons between Gastric Alimetry BSGM and EGG were conducted by protocolized retrospective evaluation of 178 subjects [110 controls; 68 nausea and vomiting (NVS) and/or type 1 diabetes (T1D)]. Comparisons followed standard methodologies for each test (pre-processing, post-processing, analysis), with statistical evaluations for group-level differences, symptom correlations, and patient-level classifications. BSGM showed substantially tighter frequency ranges vs EGG in controls. Both tests detected rhythm instability in NVS, but EGG showed opposite frequency effects in T1D. BSGM showed an 8× increase in the number of significant correlations with symptoms. BSGM accuracy for patient-level classification was 0.78 for patients vs controls and 0.96 as compared to blinded consensus panel; EGG accuracy was 0.54 and 0.43. EGG detected group-level differences in patients, but lacked symptom correlations and showed poor accuracy for patient-level classification, explaining EGG's limited clinical utility. BSGM demonstrated substantial performance improvements across all domains.
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- Gabriel Schamberg
- Department of Surgery, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Alimetry Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Surgery, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Alimetry Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Surgery, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Surgery, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- School of Medicine, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia
- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Campbelltown Hospital, Sydney, Australia
- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Townsville University Hospital, Townsville, Australia
- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
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- School of Medicine, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia
- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Campbelltown Hospital, Sydney, Australia
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- Department of Gastroenterology, North Shore Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Surgery, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Alimetry Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand
- Auckland Bioengineering Institute, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Surgery, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
- Alimetry Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand.
- Auckland Bioengineering Institute, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
- Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Sengottuvel S, Shenbaga Devi S, Sasikala M, Satheesh S, Selvaraj RJ. A method for noninvasive beat-by-beat visualization of His bundle signals. Ann Noninvasive Electrocardiol 2023; 28:e13076. [PMID: 37496182 PMCID: PMC10475892 DOI: 10.1111/anec.13076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2022] [Revised: 06/13/2023] [Accepted: 07/11/2023] [Indexed: 07/28/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Invasive recording of His bundle signals (HBS) in electrophysiological study (EPS) is important in determining HV interval, the time taken to activate the ventricles from the His bundle. Noninvasive surface measurements of HBS are attempted by averaging typically 100-200 cardiac cycles of ECG time series in body surface potential mapping (BSPM) and in magnetocardiography (MCG) which records weak cardiac magnetic fields by highly sensitive detectors. However, noninvasive beat-by-beat extraction of HBS is challenged by ramp-like atrial signals and noise in PR segment of the cardiac cycle. METHODS By making use of a signal-averaged trace showing prominent HBS as a guide trace, we developed a method combining interval-dependent wavelet thresholding (IDWT) and signal space projection (SSP) technique to eliminate artifacts from single beats. The method was applied on MCG recorded on 21 subjects with known HV intervals based on EPS and noninvasive signal-averaging, including five subjects with BSPM recorded subsequently. The method was also applied on stress-MCG of a subject featuring autonomic dynamics. RESULTS HBS could be extracted from 19 out of 21 subjects by signal-averaging whose timing differed from EPS between -8 and 11 ms as tested by 2 observers. HBS in single beats were seen as aligned patterns in inter-beat contours and were appreciable in stress-MCG and conspicuous than BSPM. The performance of the method was evaluated on simulated and measured MCG to be adequate if the signal-to-noise ratio was at least 20 dB. CONCLUSIONS These results suggest the use of this method for noninvasive assessments on HBS.
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- S. Sengottuvel
- SQUIDs Applications Section, SQUID and Detector Technology DivisionMaterials Science Group, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic ResearchKalpakkamIndia
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- Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Centre for Medical ElectronicsAnna UniversityChennaiIndia
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- Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Centre for Medical ElectronicsAnna UniversityChennaiIndia
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- Department of CardiologyJawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and ResearchPuducherryIndia
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- Department of CardiologyJawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and ResearchPuducherryIndia
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Umemoto S, Takemoto M, Koga T, Tsuchihashi T. Detection of a unidirectional epicardial connection between the right-sided pulmonary venous carina and the right atrium by pacing from a high-density mapping catheter. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol 2023; 46:928-933. [PMID: 36515076 DOI: 10.1111/pace.14645] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2022] [Revised: 11/22/2022] [Accepted: 12/10/2022] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
Abstract
We report a case of recurring, persistent atrial fibrillation (AF) in a patient with a unidirectional epicardial connection (EC) between the right-sided pulmonary venous (PV) carina and the right atrium detected using a high-density mapping catheter with a steerable introducer support, but not a conventional circular mapping catheter. This unidirectional EC could be steadily abolished by a radiofrequency delivery. Finally, we were able to successfully achieve complete PV antrum isolation. Thereafter, he has remained well without any AF.
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- Shintaro Umemoto
- Cardiovascular Center, Steel Memorial Yawata Hospital, Kitakyushu, Japan
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- Cardiovascular Center, Steel Memorial Yawata Hospital, Kitakyushu, Japan
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- Cardiovascular Center, Steel Memorial Yawata Hospital, Kitakyushu, Japan
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- Cardiovascular Center, Steel Memorial Yawata Hospital, Kitakyushu, Japan
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Kloosterman M, Boonstra MJ, Roudijk RW, Bourfiss M, van der Schaaf I, Velthuis BK, Eijsvogels TMH, Kirkels FP, van Dam PM, Loh P. Body surface potential mapping detects early disease onset in plakophilin-2-pathogenic variant carriers. Europace 2023; 25:euad197. [PMID: 37433034 PMCID: PMC10368448 DOI: 10.1093/europace/euad197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2023] [Accepted: 07/04/2023] [Indexed: 07/13/2023] Open
Abstract
AIMS Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) is a progressive inherited cardiac disease. Early detection of disease and risk stratification remain challenging due to heterogeneous phenotypic expression. The standard configuration of the 12 lead electrocardiogram (ECG) might be insensitive to identify subtle ECG abnormalities. We hypothesized that body surface potential mapping (BSPM) may be more sensitive to detect subtle ECG abnormalities. METHODS AND RESULTS We obtained 67 electrode BSPM in plakophilin-2 (PKP2)-pathogenic variant carriers and control subjects. Subject-specific computed tomography/magnetic resonance imaging based models of the heart/torso and electrode positions were created. Cardiac activation and recovery patterns were visualized with QRS- and STT-isopotential map series on subject-specific geometries to relate QRS-/STT-patterns to cardiac anatomy and electrode positions. To detect early signs of functional/structural heart disease, we also obtained right ventricular (RV) echocardiographic deformation imaging. Body surface potential mapping was obtained in 25 controls and 42 PKP2-pathogenic variant carriers. We identified five distinct abnormal QRS-patterns and four distinct abnormal STT-patterns in the isopotential map series of 31/42 variant carriers. Of these 31 variant carriers, 17 showed no depolarization or repolarization abnormalities in the 12 lead ECG. Of the 19 pre-clinical variant carriers, 12 had normal RV-deformation patterns, while 7/12 showed abnormal QRS- and/or STT-patterns. CONCLUSION Assessing depolarization and repolarization by BSPM may help in the quest for early detection of disease in variant carriers since abnormal QRS- and/or STT-patterns were found in variant carriers with a normal 12 lead ECG. Because electrical abnormalities were observed in subjects with normal RV-deformation patterns, we hypothesize that electrical abnormalities develop prior to functional/structural abnormalities in ARVC.
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- Manon Kloosterman
- Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Physiology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- ECG-Excellence BV, Nieuwerbrug, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Pastore CA. Applicability of Body Surface Potential Mapping Through Exercise in Small Animals. Arq Bras Cardiol 2022; 119:776-777. [PMID: 36453769 PMCID: PMC9750226 DOI: 10.36660/abc.20220646] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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- Carlos Alberto Pastore
- Universidade de São PauloFaculdade de MedicinaHospital das ClinicasSão PauloSPBrasilInstituto do Coração (InCor), Hospital das Clinicas FMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo – Unidade Clínica de Eletrocardiografia de Repouso, São Paulo, SP – Brasil
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Strik M, Ploux S, Bordachar P. What Body Surface Mapping Has Taught Us About Ventricular Conduction Disease Implications for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy and His Bundle Pacing. Card Electrophysiol Clin 2022; 14:213-221. [PMID: 35715079 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccep.2021.12.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
Abstract
The degree and pattern of conduction disease seem determinant when assessing potential cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) candidates. In the present review, the authors discuss the available noninvasive techniques that can be used to acquire ventricular activation time maps. They describe what body surface mapping has taught us about left bundle branch block, right bundle branch block, intraventricular conduction delay, and right ventricular pacing and discuss the ability of derived parameters of electrical dyssynchrony to predict long-term clinical response to CRT or His bundle pacing.
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- Marc Strik
- Bordeaux University Hospital (CHU), Avenue de Magellan, Pessac F-33600, France; IHU Liryc, Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, Av. du Haut Lévêque, 33600 Pessac, France.
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- Bordeaux University Hospital (CHU), Avenue de Magellan, Pessac F-33600, France; IHU Liryc, Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, Av. du Haut Lévêque, 33600 Pessac, France
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- Bordeaux University Hospital (CHU), Avenue de Magellan, Pessac F-33600, France; IHU Liryc, Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, Av. du Haut Lévêque, 33600 Pessac, France
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Haissaguerre M, Cheniti G, Hocini M, Sacher F, Ramirez FD, Cochet H, Bear L, Tixier R, Duchateau J, Walton R, Surget E, Kamakura T, Marchand H, Derval N, Bordachar P, Ploux S, Takagi T, Pambrun T, Jais P, Labrousse L, Strik M, Ashikaga H, Calkins H, Vigmond E, Nademanee K, Bernus O, Dubois R. OUP accepted manuscript. Eur Heart J 2022; 43:1234-1247. [PMID: 35134898 PMCID: PMC8934691 DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehab893] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2021] [Revised: 10/25/2021] [Accepted: 12/16/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Aims Mapping data of human ventricular fibrillation (VF) are limited. We performed detailed mapping of the activities underlying the onset of VF and targeted ablation in patients with structural cardiac abnormalities. Methods and results We evaluated 54 patients (50 ± 16 years) with VF in the setting of ischaemic (n = 15), hypertrophic (n = 8) or dilated cardiomyopathy (n = 12), or Brugada syndrome (n = 19). Ventricular fibrillation was mapped using body-surface mapping to identify driver (reentrant and focal) areas and invasive Purkinje mapping. Purkinje drivers were defined as Purkinje activities faster than the local ventricular rate. Structural substrate was delineated by electrogram criteria and by imaging. Catheter ablation was performed in 41 patients with recurrent VF. Sixty-one episodes of spontaneous (n = 10) or induced (n = 51) VF were mapped. Ventricular fibrillation was organized for the initial 5.0 ± 3.4 s, exhibiting large wavefronts with similar cycle lengths (CLs) across both ventricles (197 ± 23 vs. 196 ± 22 ms, P = 0.9). Most drivers (81%) originated from areas associated with the structural substrate. The Purkinje system was implicated as a trigger or driver in 43% of patients with cardiomyopathy. The transition to disorganized VF was associated with the acceleration of initial reentrant activities (CL shortening from 187 ± 17 to 175 ± 20 ms, P < 0.001), then spatial dissemination of drivers. Purkinje and substrate ablation resulted in the reduction of VF recurrences from a pre-procedural median of seven episodes [interquartile range (IQR) 4–16] to 0 episode (IQR 0–2) (P < 0.001) at 56 ± 30 months. Conclusions The onset of human VF is sustained by activities originating from Purkinje and structural substrate, before spreading throughout the ventricles to establish disorganized VF. Targeted ablation results in effective reduction of VF burden. Key question The initial phase of human ventricular fibrillation (VF) is critical as it involves the primary activities leading to sustained VF and arrhythmic sudden death. The origin of such activities is unknown. Key finding Body-surface mapping shows that most drivers (≈80%) during the initial VF phase originate from electrophysiologically defined structural substrates. Repetitive Purkinje activities can be elicited by programmed stimulation and are implicated as drivers in 37% of cardiomyopathy patients. Take-home message The onset of human VF is mostly associated with activities from the Purkinje network and structural substrate, before spreading throughout the ventricles to establish sustained VF. Targeted ablation reduces or eliminates VF recurrence.
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- Department of Electrophysiology and Cardiac Stimulation, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
- Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Liryc, Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, Pessac, France
- Univ Bordeaux, CRCTB, Inserm, U1045 Pessac, France
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- Department of Electrophysiology and Cardiac Stimulation, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
- Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Liryc, Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, Pessac, France
- Univ Bordeaux, CRCTB, Inserm, U1045 Pessac, France
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- Department of Electrophysiology and Cardiac Stimulation, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
- Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Liryc, Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, Pessac, France
- Univ Bordeaux, CRCTB, Inserm, U1045 Pessac, France
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- Department of Electrophysiology and Cardiac Stimulation, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
- Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Liryc, Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, Pessac, France
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- Department of Electrophysiology and Cardiac Stimulation, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
- Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Liryc, Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, Pessac, France
- Univ Bordeaux, CRCTB, Inserm, U1045 Pessac, France
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- Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Liryc, Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, Pessac, France
- Univ Bordeaux, CRCTB, Inserm, U1045 Pessac, France
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- Department of Electrophysiology and Cardiac Stimulation, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
- Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Liryc, Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, Pessac, France
- Univ Bordeaux, CRCTB, Inserm, U1045 Pessac, France
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- Department of Electrophysiology and Cardiac Stimulation, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
- Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Liryc, Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, Pessac, France
- Univ Bordeaux, CRCTB, Inserm, U1045 Pessac, France
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- Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Liryc, Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, Pessac, France
- Univ Bordeaux, CRCTB, Inserm, U1045 Pessac, France
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- Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Liryc, Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, Pessac, France
- Univ Bordeaux, CRCTB, Inserm, U1045 Pessac, France
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- Department of Electrophysiology and Cardiac Stimulation, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
- Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Liryc, Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, Pessac, France
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- Department of Electrophysiology and Cardiac Stimulation, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
- Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Liryc, Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, Pessac, France
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- Department of Electrophysiology and Cardiac Stimulation, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
- Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Liryc, Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, Pessac, France
- Univ Bordeaux, CRCTB, Inserm, U1045 Pessac, France
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- Department of Electrophysiology and Cardiac Stimulation, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
- Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Liryc, Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, Pessac, France
- Univ Bordeaux, CRCTB, Inserm, U1045 Pessac, France
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- Department of Electrophysiology and Cardiac Stimulation, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
- Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Liryc, Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, Pessac, France
- Univ Bordeaux, CRCTB, Inserm, U1045 Pessac, France
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- Department of Electrophysiology and Cardiac Stimulation, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
- Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Liryc, Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, Pessac, France
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- Department of Electrophysiology and Cardiac Stimulation, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
- Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Liryc, Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, Pessac, France
- Univ Bordeaux, CRCTB, Inserm, U1045 Pessac, France
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- Department of Electrophysiology and Cardiac Stimulation, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
- Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Liryc, Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, Pessac, France
- Univ Bordeaux, CRCTB, Inserm, U1045 Pessac, France
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- Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Liryc, Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, Pessac, France
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- Department of Electrophysiology and Cardiac Stimulation, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
- Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Liryc, Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, Pessac, France
- Univ Bordeaux, CRCTB, Inserm, U1045 Pessac, France
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- Arrhythmia Service, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 600 N Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- Arrhythmia Service, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 600 N Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Liryc, Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, Pessac, France
- Univ Bordeaux, IMB, U1045 Pessac, France
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- Department of Electrophysiology and Cardiac Stimulation, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
- Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Liryc, Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, Pessac, France
- Univ Bordeaux, CRCTB, Inserm, U1045 Pessac, France
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- Department of Electrophysiology and Cardiac Stimulation, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
- Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Liryc, Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, Pessac, France
- Univ Bordeaux, CRCTB, Inserm, U1045 Pessac, France
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Silva Cunha P, Santos H, Martins Oliveira M. Cardiac resynchronization system implantation guided by three-dimensional electroanatomic mapping. Rev Port Cardiol 2021; 40:891-893. [PMID: 34857164 DOI: 10.1016/j.repce.2021.10.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2020] [Accepted: 01/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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- Pedro Silva Cunha
- Arrhythmology, Pacing and Electrophysiology Unit, Cardiology Service, Santa Marta Hospital, Central Lisbon Hospital University Center (CHULC), Portugal.
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- Arrhythmology, Pacing and Electrophysiology Unit, Cardiology Service, Santa Marta Hospital, Central Lisbon Hospital University Center (CHULC), Portugal
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- Arrhythmology, Pacing and Electrophysiology Unit, Cardiology Service, Santa Marta Hospital, Central Lisbon Hospital University Center (CHULC), Portugal
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Zubkiewicz-Kucharska A, Noczyńska A, Sobieszczańska M, Poręba M, Chrzanowska J, Poręba R, Seifert M, Janocha A, Laszki-Szcząchor K. Disturbances in the intraventricular conduction system in teenagers with type 1 diabetes. A pilot study. J Diabetes Complications 2021; 35:108043. [PMID: 34538554 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdiacomp.2021.108043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2021] [Revised: 07/01/2021] [Accepted: 08/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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UNLABELLED Body Surface Potential Mapping (BSPM) is a multi-electrode synchronous method for examining electrocardiographic records on the patients' body surface that allows the assessment of changes in the heart conduction system. The aim of the study was to visualize and evaluate changes in the intraventricular system in adolescents with T1D. PATIENTS AND METHODS Inclusion criteria: age > 12 years, T1D duration >3 years, HbA1c >8%. EXCLUSION CRITERIA diagnosis of autonomic neuropathy, heart structural defects, heart failure. BSPM data were processed into map plotting to illustrate differences in ventricular activation time (VAT, isochron lines). RESULTS 33 teenagers (20 boys), mean age 15.0 ± 2.1 years, T1D from 6.8 ± 4.1 years were included. Mean HbA1c was 9.6 ± 2.0%. In the standard ECG recording abnormalities were not present. The distribution of isolines on the group-mean map plotted for T1D patients only initially resembles the course of isolines on the group-map for normal subjects (N = 30), in whom the electrical impulse stimulating the heart ventricles passes through the atrio-ventricular node, then symmetrically excites the branches of His bundle and finally the Purkinje fibers. In T1D patients, after proper onset of intraventricular stimulation, the isolines reflecting the both ventricles reach higher time values, which indicates problems in the propagation of the ventricular depolarization.
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- Agnieszka Zubkiewicz-Kucharska
- Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology, Wrocław Medical University, Chałubińskiego Str. 2a, 50-368 Wrocław, Poland.
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- Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology, Wrocław Medical University, Chałubińskiego Str. 2a, 50-368 Wrocław, Poland
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- Department and Clinic of Geriatrics, Wrocław Medical University, Skłodowskiej-Curie Str. 66, 50-369 Wrocław, Poland
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- Department of Pathophysiology, Wrocław Medical University, Marcinkowskiego Str. 1, 50-368 Wrocław, Poland
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- Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology, Wrocław Medical University, Chałubińskiego Str. 2a, 50-368 Wrocław, Poland
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- Department and Clinic of Internal and Occupational Diseases and Hypertension, Wrocław Medical University, Borowska Str. 213, 50-556 Wrocław, Poland
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- Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology, Wrocław Medical University, Chałubińskiego Str. 2a, 50-368 Wrocław, Poland
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- Department of Pathophysiology, Wrocław Medical University, Marcinkowskiego Str. 1, 50-368 Wrocław, Poland
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- Department of Pathophysiology, Wrocław Medical University, Marcinkowskiego Str. 1, 50-368 Wrocław, Poland
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Ruenruaysab K, Calder S, Hayes T, Andrews C, OaGrady G, Gharibans A, Du P. Effects of anatomical variations of the stomach on body-surface gastric mapping investigated using a large population-based multiscale simulation approach. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2021; 69:1369-1377. [PMID: 34587001 DOI: 10.1109/tbme.2021.3116287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The contractions of the stomach are governed by bioelectrical slow waves that can be detected non-invasively from the body-surface. Diagnosis of gastric motility disorders remains challenging due to the limited information provided by symptoms and tests, including standard electrogastrography (EGG). Body-surface gastric mapping (BSGM) is a novel technique that measures the resultant body-surface potentials using an array of multiple cutaneous electrodes. However, there is no established protocol to guide the placement of the mapping array and to account for the effects of biodiversity on the interpretation of gastric BSGM data. This study aims to quantify the effect of anatomical variation of the stomach on body surface potentials. To this end, 93 subject specific models of the stomach and torso were developed. Anatomical models were developed based on data obtained from the Cancer Imaging Archive. For each subject a set of points were created to model general anatomy the stomach and the torso, using a finite element mesh. A bidomain model was used to simulate the gastric slow waves in the antegrade wave (AW) direction and formation of colliding waves (CW). The resultant dipole was calculated, and a forward modeling approach was employed to simulate body-surface potentials. Simulated data were sampled from a 55 array of electrodes from the body-surface and compared between AW and CW cases. Anatomical parameters such as the Euclidean distance from the xiphoid process (8.6 2.2 cm), orientation relative to the axial plane (195 20.0) were quantified. Electrophysiological simulations of AW and CW were both correlated to specific metrics derived from BSGM signals. In general, the maximum amplitude () and orientation () of the signals provided consistent separation of AW and CW. The findings of this study will aid gastric BSGM electrode array design and placement protocol in clinical practices.
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Peng T, Malik A, Bear LR, Trew ML. Impulse Data Model For Solving The Inverse Problem of Electrocardiography. IEEE J Biomed Health Inform 2021; 26:1353-1361. [PMID: 34428164 DOI: 10.1109/jbhi.2021.3106645] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To develop, train and test neural networks for predicting heart surface potentials (HSPs) from body surface potentials (BSPs). The method re-frames traditional inverse problems of electrocardiograpy into regression problems, constraining the solution space by decomposing signals with multidimensional Gaussian impulse basis functions. METHODS Impulse HSPs were generated with single Gaussian basis functions at discrete heart surface locations and projected to corresponding BSPs using a volume conductor torso model. Both BSP (inputs) and HSP (outputs) were mapped to regular 2D surface meshes and used to train a neural network. Predictive capabilities of the network were tested with unseen synthetic and experimental data. RESULTS A dense full connected single hidden layer neural network was trained to map body surface impulses to heart surface Gaussian basis functions for reconstructing HSP. Synthetic pulses moving across the heart surface were predicted from the neural network with root mean squared error of 9.1 +/ 1.4%. Predicted signals were robust to noise up to 20 dB and errors due to displacement and rotation of the heart within the torso were bounded and predictable. A shift of the heart 40 mm toward the spine resulted in a 4% increase in signal feature localization error. The set of training impulse function data could be reduced and prediction error remained bounded. Recorded HSPs from in-vitro pig hearts were reliably decomposed using space-time Gaussian basis functions. Activation times calculated from predicted HSPs for left-ventricular pacing had a mean absolute error of 10.4 +/ 11.4 ms. Other pacing scenarios were analyzed with similar success. CONCLUSION Impulses from Gaussian basis functions are potentially an effective and robust way to train simple neural network data models for reconstructing HSPs from decomposed BSPs. SIGNIFICANCE The HSPs predicted by the neural network can be used to generate activation maps that non-invasively identify features of cardiac electrical dysfunction and can guide subsequent treatment options.
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Bear LR, Dogrusoz YS, Good W, Svehlikova J, Coll-Font J, van Dam E, MacLeod R. The Impact of Torso Signal Processing on Noninvasive Electrocardiographic Imaging Reconstructions. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2021; 68:436-447. [PMID: 32746032 PMCID: PMC8000158 DOI: 10.1109/tbme.2020.3003465] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Goal: To evaluate state-of-the-art signal processing methods for epicardial potential-based noninvasive electrocardiographic imaging reconstructions of single-site pacing data. Methods: Experimental data were obtained from two torso-tank setups in which Langendorff-perfused hearts (n = 4) were suspended and potentials recorded simultaneously from torso and epicardial surfaces. 49 different signal processing methods were applied to torso potentials, grouped as i) high-frequency noise removal (HFR) methods ii) baseline drift removal (BDR) methods and iii) combined HFR+BDR. The inverse problem was solved and reconstructed electrograms and activation maps compared to those directly recorded. Results: HFR showed no difference compared to not filtering in terms of absolute differences in reconstructed electrogram amplitudes nor median correlation in QRS waveforms (p > 0.05). However, correlation and mean absolute error of activation times and pacing site localization were improved with all methods except a notch filter. HFR applied post-reconstruction produced no differences compared to pre-reconstruction. BDR and BDR+HFR significantly improved absolute and relative difference, and correlation in electrograms (p < 0.05). While BDR+HFR combined improved activation time and pacing site detection, BDR alone produced significantly lower correlation and higher localization errors (p < 0.05). Conclusion: BDR improves reconstructed electrogram morphologies and amplitudes due to a reduction in lambda value selected for the inverse problem. The simplest method (resetting the isoelectric point) is sufficient to see these improvements. HFR does not impact electrogram accuracy, but does impact post-processing to extract features such as activation times. Removal of line noise is insufficient to see these changes. HFR should be applied post-reconstruction to ensure over-filtering does not occur.
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Alvarez A, Preston C, Trujillo T, Wilhite C, Burton A, Vohnout S, Witte RS. In vivo acoustoelectric imaging for high-resolution visualization of cardiac electric spatiotemporal dynamics. Appl Opt 2020; 59:11292-11300. [PMID: 33362052 PMCID: PMC8569939 DOI: 10.1364/ao.410172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2020] [Accepted: 11/16/2020] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Acoustoelectric cardiac imaging (ACI) is a hybrid modality that exploits the interaction of an ultrasonic pressure wave and the resistivity of tissue to map current densities in the heart. This study demonstrates for the first time in vivo ACI in a swine model. ACI measured beat-to-beat variability (n=20) of the peak of the cardiac activation wave at one location of the left ventricle as 5.32±0.74µV, 3.26±0.54mm below the epicardial surface, and 2.67±0.56ms before the peak of the local electrogram. Cross-sectional ACI images exhibited propagation velocities of 0.192±0.061m/s along the epicardial-endocardial axis with an SNR of 24.9 dB. This study demonstrates beat-to-beat and multidimensional ACI, which might reveal important information to help guide electroanatomic mapping procedures during ablation therapy.
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- Alexander Alvarez
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Arizona, 1230 N Cherry Ave., Tucson, Arizona 85719, USA
- Electrosonix, LLC, 435 E 9th St., Tucson, Arizona 85705, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Arizona, 1230 N Cherry Ave., Tucson, Arizona 85719, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Arizona, 1230 N Cherry Ave., Tucson, Arizona 85719, USA
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- Department of Medical Imaging, University of Arizona, 1230 N Cherry Ave., Tucson, Arizona 85719, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Arizona, 1230 N Cherry Ave., Tucson, Arizona 85719, USA
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- Electrosonix, LLC, 435 E 9th St., Tucson, Arizona 85705, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Arizona, 1230 N Cherry Ave., Tucson, Arizona 85719, USA
- Electrosonix, LLC, 435 E 9th St., Tucson, Arizona 85705, USA
- Department of Medical Imaging, University of Arizona, 1230 N Cherry Ave., Tucson, Arizona 85719, USA
- James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, 1630 E University Blvd., Tucson, Arizona 85719, USA
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Ruenruaysab K, Calder S, Hayes T, O'Grady G, Gharibans A, Du P. Effects of Anatomical Variations on Body Surface Gastric Mapping. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2020; 2020:2388-2391. [PMID: 33018487 DOI: 10.1109/embc44109.2020.9176493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The contractions of the stomach are governed by an electrophysiological event that can be detected noninvasively from the body-surface. Diagnosis of gastric motility disorders remains challenging due to the limited information provided by symptoms and standard electrogastrography (EGG). Body-surface gastric mapping (BSGM) is a novel technique that measures the resultant body-surface potentials using an array of multiple cutaneous electrodes. However, there is no established protocol to guide the placement of the mapping array and to account for the effects of biodiversity on the interpretation of gastric BSGM data. This study aims to quantify the effect of anatomical variation of the stomach on body-surface potentials. To this end, 44 subject specific models of the stomach and torso were developed. Anatomical parameters such as the Euclidean distance from the xiphoid process (88.1 ± 21.9 mm), orientation relative to the axial plane (202.8 ± 14.0°) and tissue volume (47.5 ± 29.5 mL) were quantified. Electrophysiological simulations demonstrated strong correlation (0.73 ± 0.16) between stomach and body-surface activities, with variations in the location of maximum amplitude relative to the xiphoid process (103.7 ± 44.2 mm). In general, there was an agreement between the location of the stomach and the location of the maximum amplitude, and an extended coverage was required to account for the biodiversity. The findings of this study will aid BSGM electrode array design and placement protocol in clinical practices.
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Caulier-Cisterna R, Sanromán-Junquera M, Muñoz-Romero S, Blanco-Velasco M, Goya-Esteban R, García-Alberola A, Rojo-Álvarez JL. Spatial-Temporal Signals and Clinical Indices in Electrocardiographic Imaging (I): Preprocessing and Bipolar Potentials. Sensors (Basel) 2020; 20:E3131. [PMID: 32492938 PMCID: PMC7309141 DOI: 10.3390/s20113131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2020] [Revised: 05/28/2020] [Accepted: 05/29/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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During the last years, Electrocardiographic Imaging (ECGI) has emerged as a powerful and promising clinical tool to support cardiologists. Starting from a plurality of potential measurements on the torso, ECGI yields a noninvasive estimation of their causing potentials on the epicardium. This unprecedented amount of measured cardiac signals needs to be conditioned and adapted to current knowledge and methods in cardiac electrophysiology in order to maximize its support to the clinical practice. In this setting, many cardiac indices are defined in terms of the so-called bipolar electrograms, which correspond with differential potentials between two spatially close potential measurements. Our aim was to contribute to the usefulness of ECGI recordings in the current knowledge and methods of cardiac electrophysiology. For this purpose, we first analyzed the basic stages of conventional cardiac signal processing and scrutinized the implications of the spatial-temporal nature of signals in ECGI scenarios. Specifically, the stages of baseline wander removal, low-pass filtering, and beat segmentation and synchronization were considered. We also aimed to establish a mathematical operator to provide suitable bipolar electrograms from the ECGI-estimated epicardium potentials. Results were obtained on data from an infarction patient and from a healthy subject. First, the low-frequency and high-frequency noises are shown to be non-independently distributed in the ECGI-estimated recordings due to their spatial dimension. Second, bipolar electrograms are better estimated when using the criterion of the maximum-amplitude difference between spatial neighbors, but also a temporal delay in discrete time of about 40 samples has to be included to obtain the usual morphology in clinical bipolar electrograms from catheters. We conclude that spatial-temporal digital signal processing and bipolar electrograms can pave the way towards the usefulness of ECGI recordings in the cardiological clinical practice. The companion paper is devoted to analyzing clinical indices obtained from ECGI epicardial electrograms measuring waveform variability and repolarization tissue properties.
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- Raúl Caulier-Cisterna
- Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Telematics and Computing Systems, Rey Juan Carlos University, Fuenlabrada, 28943 Madrid, Spain; (R.C.-C.); (M.S.-J.); (S.M.-R.); (R.G.-E.)
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- Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Telematics and Computing Systems, Rey Juan Carlos University, Fuenlabrada, 28943 Madrid, Spain; (R.C.-C.); (M.S.-J.); (S.M.-R.); (R.G.-E.)
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- Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Telematics and Computing Systems, Rey Juan Carlos University, Fuenlabrada, 28943 Madrid, Spain; (R.C.-C.); (M.S.-J.); (S.M.-R.); (R.G.-E.)
- Center for Computational Simulation, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Boadilla, 28223 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, 28805 Madrid, Spain;
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- Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Telematics and Computing Systems, Rey Juan Carlos University, Fuenlabrada, 28943 Madrid, Spain; (R.C.-C.); (M.S.-J.); (S.M.-R.); (R.G.-E.)
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- Arrhythmia Unit, Hospital Clínico Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca de Murcia, El Palmar, 30120 Murcia, Spain;
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- Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Telematics and Computing Systems, Rey Juan Carlos University, Fuenlabrada, 28943 Madrid, Spain; (R.C.-C.); (M.S.-J.); (S.M.-R.); (R.G.-E.)
- Center for Computational Simulation, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Boadilla, 28223 Madrid, Spain
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Caulier-Cisterna R, Blanco-Velasco M, Goya-Esteban R, Muñoz-Romero S, Sanromán-Junquera M, García-Alberola A, Rojo-Álvarez JL. Spatial-Temporal Signals and Clinical Indices in Electrocardiographic Imaging (II): Electrogram Clustering and T-wave Alternans. Sensors (Basel) 2020; 20:s20113070. [PMID: 32485879 PMCID: PMC7309062 DOI: 10.3390/s20113070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2020] [Revised: 04/17/2020] [Accepted: 04/27/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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During the last years, attention and controversy have been present for the first commercially available equipment being used in Electrocardiographic Imaging (ECGI), a new cardiac diagnostic tool which opens up a new field of diagnostic possibilities. Previous knowledge and criteria of cardiologists using intracardiac Electrograms (EGM) should be revisited from the newly available spatial-temporal potentials, and digital signal processing should be readapted to this new data structure. Aiming to contribute to the usefulness of ECGI recordings in the current knowledge and methods of cardiac electrophysiology, we previously presented two results: First, spatial consistency can be observed even for very basic cardiac signal processing stages (such as baseline wander and low-pass filtering); second, useful bipolar EGMs can be obtained by a digital processing operator searching for the maximum amplitude and including a time delay. In addition, this work aims to demonstrate the functionality of ECGI for cardiac electrophysiology from a twofold view, namely, through the analysis of the EGM waveforms, and by studying the ventricular repolarization properties. The former is scrutinized in terms of the clustering properties of the unipolar an bipolar EGM waveforms, in control and myocardial infarction subjects, and the latter is analyzed using the properties of T-wave alternans (TWA) in control and in Long-QT syndrome (LQTS) example subjects. Clustered regions of the EGMs were spatially consistent and congruent with the presence of infarcted tissue in unipolar EGMs, and bipolar EGMs with adequate signal processing operators hold this consistency and yielded a larger, yet moderate, number of spatial-temporal regions. TWA was not present in control compared with an LQTS subject in terms of the estimated alternans amplitude from the unipolar EGMs, however, higher spatial-temporal variation was present in LQTS torso and epicardium measurements, which was consistent through three different methods of alternans estimation. We conclude that spatial-temporal analysis of EGMs in ECGI will pave the way towards enhanced usefulness in the clinical practice, so that atomic signal processing approach should be conveniently revisited to be able to deal with the great amount of information that ECGI conveys for the clinician.
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- Raúl Caulier-Cisterna
- Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Telematics and Computing Systems, Rey Juan Carlos University, 28943 Fuenlabrada, Madrid, Spain; (R.C.-C.); (R.G.-E.); (S.M.-R.); (M.S.-J.)
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- Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Universidad de Alcalá, 28805 Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain;
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- Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Telematics and Computing Systems, Rey Juan Carlos University, 28943 Fuenlabrada, Madrid, Spain; (R.C.-C.); (R.G.-E.); (S.M.-R.); (M.S.-J.)
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- Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Telematics and Computing Systems, Rey Juan Carlos University, 28943 Fuenlabrada, Madrid, Spain; (R.C.-C.); (R.G.-E.); (S.M.-R.); (M.S.-J.)
- Center for Computational Simulation, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28223 Boadilla, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Telematics and Computing Systems, Rey Juan Carlos University, 28943 Fuenlabrada, Madrid, Spain; (R.C.-C.); (R.G.-E.); (S.M.-R.); (M.S.-J.)
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- Arrhythmia Unit, Hospital Clínico Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca de Murcia, El Palmar, 30120 Murcia, Spain;
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- Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Telematics and Computing Systems, Rey Juan Carlos University, 28943 Fuenlabrada, Madrid, Spain; (R.C.-C.); (R.G.-E.); (S.M.-R.); (M.S.-J.)
- Center for Computational Simulation, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28223 Boadilla, Madrid, Spain
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Gharbalchi No F, Serinagaoglu Dogrusoz Y, Onak ON, Weber GW. Reduced leadset selection and performance evaluation in the inverse problem of electrocardiography for reconstructing the ventricularly paced electrograms. J Electrocardiol 2020; 60:44-53. [PMID: 32251931 DOI: 10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2020.02.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2019] [Revised: 12/09/2019] [Accepted: 02/25/2020] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Noninvasive electrocardiographic imaging (ECGI) is used for obtaining high-resolution images of the electrical activity of the heart, and is a powerful method with the potential to detect certain arrhythmias. However, there is no 'best' lead configuration in the literature to measure the torso potentials. This paper evaluates ECGI reconstructions using various reduced leadset configurations, explores whether one can find a common reduced leadset configuration that can accurately reconstruct the electrograms for datasets with different pacing sites, and compares two activation time estimation methods. APPROACH We used 23 ventricularly-paced datasets with pacing sites on different regions of the epicardium. Starting with a full 192‑leadset, we found "optimized" reduced leadsets specific to each dataset; we considered 64‑lead and 32‑lead configurations. Based on the histogram of individual "optimized" lead selections, we found a common reduced leadset. We compared the ECGI reconstructions and activation times of the individually optimized lead configurations with the common lead configurations. RESULTS Both 64‑lead configurations had similar performances to the 192‑leadset. 32‑leadset configurations, on the other hand, yielded noisy reconstructions, which affected their performance. SIGNIFICANCE There are no statistically significant differences in the performance of the inverse solutions when a 64‑lead common reduced leadset is used to estimate the electrograms and their respective pacing sites compared to using the full leadset. 32‑lead configurations, on the other hand, require a more careful study to improve their performance. The activation time method used significantly affects the pacing site estimation performance, especially with fewer electrodes.
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- F Gharbalchi No
- Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program, METU, Ankara, Turkey
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- Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program, METU, Ankara, Turkey; Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, METU, Ankara, Turkey.
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- Institute of Applied Mathematics, METU, Ankara, Turkey
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- Institute of Applied Mathematics, METU, Ankara, Turkey; Faculty of Engineering Management, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
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Novel cardiac mapping systems allow a safe and highly accurate 3-D reconstruction of cardiac structures as well as fast and accurate visualization of cardiac arrhythmias. In addition, they are increasingly reducing the need for fluoroscopy in these procedures. The current state of the art, as well as the presentation of possible uses of individual systems and their limitations, is presented in this article. Cardiac mapping systems can significantly contribute to an optimal therapeutic decision making in invasive electrophysiology. This article introduces new developments of Rhythmia, Topera, EnSite Precision, and CARTO systems and provides a look ahead to the future.
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- Martin Borlich
- Heart Center, Segeberger Kliniken (Academic Teaching Hospital of the Universities of Kiel, Lübeck and Hamburg), Am Kurpark 1, Bad Segeberg, Schleswig-Holstein 23795, Germany.
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- Clinic of Electrophysiology, Heart and Diabetes Center NRW, University Hospital of Ruhr-University Bochum, Georgstr. 11, Bad Oeynhausen, Nordrhein-Westfalen 32545, Germany
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Malik A, Peng T, Trew ML. A machine learning approach to reconstruction of heart surface potentials from body surface potentials. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2019; 2018:4828-4831. [PMID: 30441745 DOI: 10.1109/embc.2018.8513207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Invasive cardiac catheterisation is a precursor to ablation therapy for ventricular tachycardia. Invasive cardiac diagnostics are fraught with risks. Decades of research has been conducted on the inverse problem of electrocardiography, which can be used to reconstruct Heart Surface Potentials (HSPs) from Body Surface Potentials (BSPs), for non-invasive cardiac diagnostics. State of the art solutions to the inverse problem are unsatisfactory, since the inverse problem is known to be ill-posed. In this paper we propose a novel approach to reconstructing HSPs from BSPs using a Time-Delay Artificial Neural Network (TDANN). We first design the TDANN architecture, and then develop an iterative search space algorithm to find the parameters of the TDANN, which results in the best overall HSP prediction. We use recorded BSPs and HSPs from individuals suffering from serious cardiac conditions to validate our TDANN. The results are encouraging, in that the predicted and recorded HSPs have an average correlation coefficient of 0.7 under diseased conditions.
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Bhatia NK, Rappel WJ, Narayan SM. Response by Bhatia et al to Letter Regarding Article, "Wavefront Field Mapping Reveals a Physiologic Network Between Drivers Where Ablation Terminates Atrial Fibrillation". Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol 2019; 12:e008022. [PMID: 31726861 PMCID: PMC7365521 DOI: 10.1161/circep.119.008022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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- Neal K Bhatia
- Cardiovascular Institute and Department of Medicine/Division of Cardiology, Stanford University, CA (N.K.B., S.M.N.)
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- Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego (W.-J.R.)
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- Cardiovascular Institute and Department of Medicine/Division of Cardiology, Stanford University, CA (N.K.B., S.M.N.)
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Zhu H, Pan Y, Wu F, Huan R. Optimized Electrode Locations for Wearable Single-Lead ECG Monitoring Devices: A Case Study Using WFEES Modules based on the LANS Method. Sensors (Basel) 2019; 19:s19204458. [PMID: 31615163 PMCID: PMC6832916 DOI: 10.3390/s19204458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2019] [Revised: 09/27/2019] [Accepted: 10/11/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Body surface potential mapping (BSPM) is a valuable tool for research regarding electrocardiograms (ECG). However, the BSPM system is limited by its large number of electrodes and wires, long installation time, and high computational complexity. In this paper, we designed a wearable four-electrode electrocardiogram-sensor (WFEES) module that measures six-channel ECGs simultaneously for ECG investigation. To reduce the testing lead number and the measurement complexity, we further proposed a method, the layered (A, N) square-based (LANS) method, to optimize the ECG acquisition and analysis process using WFEES modules for different applications. Moreover, we presented a case study of electrode location optimization for wearable single-lead ECG monitoring devices using WFEES modules with the LANS method. In this study, 102 sets of single-lead ECG data from 19 healthy subjects were analyzed. The signal-to-noise ratio of ECG, as well as the mean and coefficient of variation of QRS amplitude, was derived among different channels to determine the optimal electrode locations. The results showed that a single-lead electrode pair should be placed on the left chest above the electrode location of standard precordial leads V1 to V4. Additionally, the best orientation was the principal diagonal as the direction of the heart's electrical axis.
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- Huaiyu Zhu
- College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.
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- College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.
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- Product Department, Hangzhou Proton Technology Co., Ltd., Hangzhou 310012, China.
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- College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China.
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Bear LR, Bouhamama O, Cluitmans M, Duchateau J, Walton RD, Abell E, Belterman C, Haissaguerre M, Bernus O, Coronel R, Dubois R. Advantages and pitfalls of noninvasive electrocardiographic imaging. J Electrocardiol 2019; 57S:S15-S20. [PMID: 31477238 DOI: 10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2019.08.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2019] [Revised: 07/29/2019] [Accepted: 08/08/2019] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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BACKGROUND With increasing clinical use of Electrocardiographic Imaging (ECGI), it is imperative to understand the limits of this technique. The objective of this study is to evaluate a potential-based ECGI approach for activation and repolarization mapping in sinus rhythm. METHOD Langendorff-perfused pig hearts were suspended in a human-shaped torso tank. Electrograms were recorded with a 108-electrode sock and ECGs with 256 electrodes embedded in the tank surface. Left bundle branch block (LBBB) was developed in 4 hearts through ablation, and repolarization abnormalities in another 4 hearts through regional perfusion of dofetilide and pinacidil. Electrograms were noninvasively reconstructed and reconstructed activation and repolarization features were compared to those recorded. RESULTS Visual consistency between ECGI and recorded activation and repolarization maps was high. While reconstructed repolarization times showed significantly more error than activation times quantitatively, patterns were reconstructed with a similar level of accuracy. The number of epicardial breakthrough sites was underestimated by ECGI and these were misplaced (>20 mm) in location. Likewise, ECGI reconstructed activation maps demonstrated artificial lines of block resulting from a W-shaped QRS waveform that were not present in recorded maps. Nevertheless, ECGI allowed identification of regions of abnormal repolarization reasonably accurately in terms of size, location and timing. CONCLUSIONS This study validates a potential-based ECGI approach to noninvasively image activation and recovery in sinus rhythm. Despite inaccuracies in epicardial breakthroughs and lines of conduction block, other important clinical features such as regions of abnormal repolarization can be accurately derived making ECGI a valuable clinical tool.
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- Laura R Bear
- IHU Liryc, Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, Fondation Bordeaux Université, F-33600 Pessac, Bordeaux, France; Université de Bordeaux, Centre de Recherche Cardio-Thoracique de Bordeaux, U1045, F-33000 Bordeaux, France; INSERM, Centre de Recherche Cardio-Thoracique de Bordeaux, U1045, F-33000 Bordeaux, France.
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- IHU Liryc, Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, Fondation Bordeaux Université, F-33600 Pessac, Bordeaux, France; Université de Bordeaux, Centre de Recherche Cardio-Thoracique de Bordeaux, U1045, F-33000 Bordeaux, France; INSERM, Centre de Recherche Cardio-Thoracique de Bordeaux, U1045, F-33000 Bordeaux, France; INRIA Bordeaux Sud-Ouest, Carmen team, Bordeaux, France
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- CARIM School for Cardiovascular Diseases, Maastricht UMC, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- IHU Liryc, Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, Fondation Bordeaux Université, F-33600 Pessac, Bordeaux, France; Université de Bordeaux, Centre de Recherche Cardio-Thoracique de Bordeaux, U1045, F-33000 Bordeaux, France; INSERM, Centre de Recherche Cardio-Thoracique de Bordeaux, U1045, F-33000 Bordeaux, France; Bordeaux University Hospital (CHU), Electrophysiology and Ablation Unit, F-33600 Pessac, France
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- IHU Liryc, Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, Fondation Bordeaux Université, F-33600 Pessac, Bordeaux, France; Université de Bordeaux, Centre de Recherche Cardio-Thoracique de Bordeaux, U1045, F-33000 Bordeaux, France; INSERM, Centre de Recherche Cardio-Thoracique de Bordeaux, U1045, F-33000 Bordeaux, France
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- IHU Liryc, Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, Fondation Bordeaux Université, F-33600 Pessac, Bordeaux, France; Université de Bordeaux, Centre de Recherche Cardio-Thoracique de Bordeaux, U1045, F-33000 Bordeaux, France; INSERM, Centre de Recherche Cardio-Thoracique de Bordeaux, U1045, F-33000 Bordeaux, France
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- IHU Liryc, Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, Fondation Bordeaux Université, F-33600 Pessac, Bordeaux, France; Department of Experimental Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, the Netherlands
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- IHU Liryc, Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, Fondation Bordeaux Université, F-33600 Pessac, Bordeaux, France; Université de Bordeaux, Centre de Recherche Cardio-Thoracique de Bordeaux, U1045, F-33000 Bordeaux, France; INSERM, Centre de Recherche Cardio-Thoracique de Bordeaux, U1045, F-33000 Bordeaux, France; Bordeaux University Hospital (CHU), Electrophysiology and Ablation Unit, F-33600 Pessac, France
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- IHU Liryc, Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, Fondation Bordeaux Université, F-33600 Pessac, Bordeaux, France; Université de Bordeaux, Centre de Recherche Cardio-Thoracique de Bordeaux, U1045, F-33000 Bordeaux, France; INSERM, Centre de Recherche Cardio-Thoracique de Bordeaux, U1045, F-33000 Bordeaux, France
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- IHU Liryc, Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, Fondation Bordeaux Université, F-33600 Pessac, Bordeaux, France; Department of Experimental Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, the Netherlands
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- IHU Liryc, Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, Fondation Bordeaux Université, F-33600 Pessac, Bordeaux, France; Université de Bordeaux, Centre de Recherche Cardio-Thoracique de Bordeaux, U1045, F-33000 Bordeaux, France; INSERM, Centre de Recherche Cardio-Thoracique de Bordeaux, U1045, F-33000 Bordeaux, France
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Erenler T, Serinagaoglu Dogrusoz Y. ML and MAP estimation of parameters for the Kalman filter and smoother applied to electrocardiographic imaging. Med Biol Eng Comput 2019; 57:2093-2113. [PMID: 31363890 DOI: 10.1007/s11517-019-02018-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2018] [Accepted: 07/16/2019] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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In electrocardiographic imaging (ECGI), one solves the inverse problem of electrocardiography (ECG) to reconstruct equivalent cardiac sources based on the body surface potential measurements and a mathematical model of the torso. Due to attenuation and spatial smoothing within the torso, this inverse problem is ill-posed. Among many regularization approaches used in the ECG literature to overcome this ill-posedness, statistical techniques have received great attention because of their flexibility to represent the data, and ability to provide performance evaluation tools for quantification of uncertainties and errors in the model. However, despite their potential to accurately reconstruct the equivalent cardiac sources, one major challenge in these methods is how to best utilize the prior information available in terms of training data. In this paper, we address the question of how to define the prior probability distributions (pdf) of the sources and the error terms so that we can obtain more accurate and robust inverse solutions. We employ two methods, maximum likelihood (ML) and maximum a posteriori (MAP), for estimating the model parameters such as the prior pdfs, error pdfs, and the state-transition matrix, based on the same training data. These model parameters are then used for the state-space representation and estimation of the epicardial potentials, which constitute the equivalent cardiac sources in this study. The performances of ML- and MAP-based model parameter estimation methods are evaluated qualitatively and quantitatively at various noise levels and geometric disturbances using two different simulated datasets. Bayesian MAP estimation, which is also a well-known statistical inversion technique, and Tikhonov regularization, which can be formulated as a special and simplified version of Bayesian MAP estimation, have been included here for comparison with the Kalman filtering method. Our results show that the state-space approach outperforms Bayesian MAP estimation in all cases; ML yields accurate results when the test and training beats come from the same physiological model, but MAP is superior to ML, especially if the test and training beats are from different physiological models. Graphical Abstract ML and MAP estimation of parameters for the Kalman filter and smoother applied to electrocardiographic imaging.
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- Taha Erenler
- Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Üniversiteler Mahallesi Dumlupınar Bulvarı No:1, 06800, Çankaya, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Üniversiteler Mahallesi Dumlupınar Bulvarı No:1, 06800, Çankaya, Ankara, Turkey.
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- Diogo Cavaco
- Cardiology Department, Hospital de Santa Cruz, Av. Prof. Reinaldo dos Santos, Carnaxide, Lisbon, Portugal
- Cardiology Department, Hospital da Luz, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Cardiology Department, Hospital de Santa Cruz, Av. Prof. Reinaldo dos Santos, Carnaxide, Lisbon, Portugal
- Cardiology Department, Hospital da Luz, Lisbon, Portugal
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Cardiac mapping has evolved from single point-by-point registration of cardiac electrical activity to its utmost real-time multimodality of mapping and imaging for catheter ablation of arrhythmias. The technology began with electrocardiogram recordings and evolved to the simultaneous registration of depolarization and repolarization using optical mapping and real-time multimodality imaging. Zero to near-zero fluoroscopy is currently used in practice to avoid radiation exposure. Real-time noninvasive mapping, imaging, and ablation of arrhythmias are in use in practice. We present the contemporary up-to-date progress on the role of cardiac mapping and imaging in the diagnosis and management of cardiac arrhythmias.
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- Mohammad Shenasa
- Heart and Rhythm Medical Group, Department of Cardiovascular Services, O'Connor Hospital, 105 North Bascom Avenue, San Jose, CA 95128, USA.
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- Saint David's Medical Center, 919 East 32nd Street, Austin, TX 78705, USA
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Rogers AJ, Bhatia NK, Brodt CR, Narayan SM. Propagation velocity at atrial fibrillation sources: Go with the flow. Int J Cardiol 2019; 286:76-77. [PMID: 30979605 PMCID: PMC6557137 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2019.04.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2019] [Accepted: 04/01/2019] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Jackson T, Claridge S, Behar J, Sieniewicz B, Gould J, Porter B, Sidhu B, Yao C, Lee A, Niederer S, Rinaldi CA. Differential effect with septal and apical RV pacing on ventricular activation in patients with left bundle branch block assessed by non-invasive electrical imaging and in silico modelling. J Interv Card Electrophysiol 2019; 57:115-123. [PMID: 31201592 PMCID: PMC7036078 DOI: 10.1007/s10840-019-00567-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2018] [Accepted: 05/19/2019] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Purpose It is uncertain whether right ventricular (RV) lead position in cardiac resynchronization therapy impacts response. There has been little detailed analysis of the activation patterns in RV septal pacing (RVSP), especially in the CRT population. We compare left bundle branch block (LBBB) activation patterns with RV pacing (RVP) within the same patients with further comparison between RV apical pacing (RVAP) and RVSP. Methods Body surface mapping was undertaken in 14 LBBB patients after CRT implantation. Nine patients had RVAP, 5 patients had RVSP. Activation parameters included left ventricular total activation time (LVtat), biventricular total activation time (VVtat), interventricular electrical synchronicity (VVsync), and dispersion of left ventricular activation times (LVdisp). The direction of activation wave front was also compared in each patient (wave front angle (WFA)). In silico computer modelling was applied to assess the effect of RVAP and RVSP in order to validate the clinical results. Results Patients were aged 64.6 ± 12.2 years, 12 were male, 8 were ischemic. Baseline QRS durations were 157 ± 18 ms. There was no difference in VVtat between RVP and LBBB but a longer LVtat in RVP (102.8 ± 19.6 vs. 87.4 ± 21.1 ms, p = 0.046). VVsync was significantly greater in LBBB (45.1 ± 20.2 vs. 35.9 ± 17.1 ms, p = 0.01) but LVdisp was greater in RVP (33.4 ± 5.9 vs. 27.6 ± 6.9 ms, p = 0.025). WFA did rotate clockwise with RVP vs. LBBB (82.5 ± 25.2 vs. 62.1 ± 31.7 op = 0.026). None of the measurements were different to LBBB with RVSP; however, the differences were preserved with RVAP for VVsync, LVdisp, and WFA. In silico modelling corroborated these results. Conclusions RVAP activation differs from LBBB where RVSP appears similar. Trial registration (ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01831518) Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1007/s10840-019-00567-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- T Jackson
- Department of Imaging Sciences, St Thomas' Hospital, King's College London, London, SE1, UK.
- Department of Cardiology, Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP2 8BJ, UK.
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- Department of Imaging Sciences, St Thomas' Hospital, King's College London, London, SE1, UK
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- Department of Imaging Sciences, St Thomas' Hospital, King's College London, London, SE1, UK
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- Department of Imaging Sciences, St Thomas' Hospital, King's College London, London, SE1, UK
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- Department of Imaging Sciences, St Thomas' Hospital, King's College London, London, SE1, UK
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- Department of Imaging Sciences, St Thomas' Hospital, King's College London, London, SE1, UK
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- Department of Imaging Sciences, St Thomas' Hospital, King's College London, London, SE1, UK
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- Medtronic/CardioInsight, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Imaging Sciences, St Thomas' Hospital, King's College London, London, SE1, UK
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- Department of Imaging Sciences, St Thomas' Hospital, King's College London, London, SE1, UK
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- Department of Imaging Sciences, St Thomas' Hospital, King's College London, London, SE1, UK
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust, King's College London, London, SE1 9RT, UK
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Ghoraani B, Suszko AM, Selvaraj RJ, Subramanian A, Krishnan S, Chauhan VS. Body surface distribution of T wave alternans is modulated by heart rate and ventricular activation sequence in patients with cardiomyopathy. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0214729. [PMID: 30969986 PMCID: PMC6457562 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0214729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2018] [Accepted: 03/19/2019] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Background T wave alternans (TWA) is an electrocardiographic marker of heightened sudden death risk from ventricular tachyarrhythmias in patients with cardiomyopathy. TWA is evaluated from the 12-lead electrocardiogram, Frank lead, or Holter lead recordings, however these clinical lead configurations will not record TWA from adjacent regions of the body torso. Objective We tested the hypothesis that changing heart rate or ventricular activation may alter the body surface distribution of TWA such that the clinical ECG leads fail to detect TWA in some patients; thereby producing a false-negative test. Methods In 28 cardiomyopathy patients (left ventricular ejection fraction 28±6%), 114 unipolar electrograms were recorded across the body torso during incremental atrial pacing, followed by atrioventricular pacing at 100, 110 and 120bpm. TWA was measured from each unipolar electrogram using the spectral method. A clinically positive TWA test was defined as TWA magnitude (Valt) ≥1.9 uV with k ≥3 at ≤110bpm. Results Maximum Valt (TWAmax) was greater from the body torso than clinical leads during atrial (p<0.005) and atrioventricular pacing (p<0.005). TWAmax was most prevalent in the right lower chest with atrial pacing 100 bpm and shifted to the left lower chest at 120 bpm. TWAmax was most prevalent in left lower chest with atrioventricular pacing at 100 bpm and shifted to the left upper chest at 120 bpm. Using the body torso as a gold standard, the false-negative rate for clinically positive TWA with clinical leads was 21% during atrial and 11% during atrioventricular pacing. Due to TWA signal migration outside the clinical leads, clinically positive TWA became false-negative when pacing mode was switched (atrial→atrioventricular pacing) in 21% of patients. Conclusions The body surface distribution of TWA is modulated by heart rate and the sequence of ventricular activation in patients with cardiomyopathy, which can give rise to modest false-negative TWA signal detection using standard clinical leads.
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- Behnaz Ghoraani
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
- Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, United States of America
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- Division of Cardiology, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
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- Division of Cardiology, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
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- Division of Cardiology, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Cardiology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Yang T, Pogwizd SM, Walcott GP, Yu L, He B. Noninvasive Activation Imaging of Ventricular Arrhythmias by Spatial Gradient Sparse in Frequency Domain-Application to Mapping Reentrant Ventricular Tachycardia. IEEE Trans Med Imaging 2019; 38:525-539. [PMID: 30136937 PMCID: PMC6372101 DOI: 10.1109/tmi.2018.2866951] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The aim of this paper is to develop and evaluate a novel imaging method [spatial gradient sparse in frequency domain (SSF)] for the reconstruction of activation sequences of ventricular arrhythmia from noninvasive body surface potential map (BSPM) measurements. We formulated and solved the electrocardiographic inverse problem in the frequency domain, and the activation time was encoded in the phase information of the imaging solution. A cellular automaton heart model was used to generate focal ventricular tachycardia (VT). Different levels of Gaussian white noise were added to simulate noise-contaminated BSPM. The performance of SSF was compared with that of weighted minimum norm inverse solution. We also evaluated the method in a swine model with simultaneous intracardiac and body surface recordings. Four reentrant VTs were observed in pigs with myocardial infarction generated by left anterior descending artery occlusion. The imaged activation sequences of reentrant VTs were compared with those obtained from intracardiac electrograms. In focal VT simulation, SSF has increased the correlation coefficient (CC) by 5% and decreased localization errors (LEs) by 2.7 mm on average under different noise levels. In the animal validation with reentrant VT, SSF has achieved an average CC of 88% and an average LE of 6.3 mm in localizing the earliest and latest activation site in the reentry circuit. Our promising results suggest that the SSF provides noninvasive imaging capability of detecting and mapping macro-reentrant circuits in 3-D ventricular space. The SSF may become a useful imaging tool of identifying and localizing the potential targets for ablation of focal and reentrant VT.
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- Ting Yang
- Biomedical Engineering Department, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Division of Cardiovascular Disease, School of Medicine, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 0019, USA
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- Division of Cardiovascular Disease, School of Medicine, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 0019, USA
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- Biomedical Engineering Department, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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Liberos A, Rodrigo M, Hernandez-Romero I, Quesada A, Fernandez-Aviles F, Atienza F, Climent AM, Guillem MS. Phase singularity point tracking for the identification of typical and atypical flutter patients: A clinical-computational study. Comput Biol Med 2018; 104:319-328. [PMID: 30558815 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2018.11.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2018] [Revised: 11/24/2018] [Accepted: 11/26/2018] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Atrial Flutter (AFL) termination by ablating the path responsible for the arrhythmia maintenance is an extended practice. However, the difficulty associated with the identification of the circuit in the case of atypical AFL motivates the development of diagnostic techniques. We propose body surface phase map analysis as a noninvasive tool to identify AFL circuits. Sixty seven lead body surface recordings were acquired in 9 patients during AFL (i.e. 3 typical, 6 atypical). Computed body surface phase maps from simulations of 5 reentrant behaviors in a realistic atrial structure were also used. Surface representation of the macro-reentrant activity was analyzed by tracking the singularity points (SPs) in surface phase maps obtained from band-pass filtered body surface potential maps. Spatial distribution of SPs showed significant differences between typical and atypical AFL. Whereas for typical AFL patients 70.78 ± 16.17% of the maps presented two SPs simultaneously in the areas defined around the midaxialliary lines, this condition was only satisfied in 5.15 ± 10.99% (p < 0.05) maps corresponding to atypical AFL patients. Simulations confirmed these results. Surface phase maps highlights the reentrant mechanism maintaining the arrhythmia and appear as a promising tool for the noninvasive characterization of the circuit maintaining AFL. The potential of the technique as a diagnosis tool needs to be evaluated in larger populations and, if it is confirmed, may help in planning ablation procedures.
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- A Liberos
- ITACA Institute, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain; Cardiology Department, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, IiSGM, CIBERCV, Spain.
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- ITACA Institute, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain; Cardiology Department, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, IiSGM, CIBERCV, Spain
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- Cardiology Department, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, IiSGM, CIBERCV, Spain; Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain
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- Department of Cardiology, Hospital General Universitari de València, Spain
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- Cardiology Department, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, IiSGM, CIBERCV, Spain
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- Cardiology Department, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, IiSGM, CIBERCV, Spain
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- Cardiology Department, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, IiSGM, CIBERCV, Spain.
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- ITACA Institute, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
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Higuchi S, Ejima K, Shoda M, Yamamoto E, Iwanami Y, Yagishita D, Hagiwara N. Impact of a prolonged interatrial conduction time for predicting the recurrence of atrial fibrillation after circumferential pulmonary vein isolation of persistent atrial fibrillation. Heart Vessels 2018; 34:616-624. [PMID: 30291411 DOI: 10.1007/s00380-018-1272-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2018] [Accepted: 09/28/2018] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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There are some cases that are difficult to cure with only circumferential pulmonary vein isolation (CPVI) of persistent atrial fibrillation (PerAF). Recently, prolonged interatrial conduction times (IACTs), which seem to be associated with progressive remodeled atria, have been reported as a predictor of new-onset AF. This study aimed to investigate the prognostic value of a prolonged IACT for predicting AF recurrences after CPVI of PerAF. One hundred thirteen patients who underwent CPVI without an empirical substrate modification of PerAF were retrospectively analyzed. The IACT was defined as the interval from the earliest P-wave onset on the ECG to the latest activation in the coronary sinus and was measured after achieving the CPVI and conversion to sinus rhythm. During a mean 22.7-month follow-up after the initial procedure, 56 patients (50%) had AF recurrences. Patients with AF recurrence had a longer IACT than those without AF recurrence (p < 0.001). The best discriminative cut-off value for the IACT was 123 ms (sensitivity 53%, specificity 85%). In a Cox multivariate analysis, a prolonged IACT of ≥ 123 ms was the only independent predictor (hazard ratio: 2.38; 95% confidence interval: 1.36-4.16, p = 0.002) of being associated with the incidence of an AF recurrence. Even after multiple CPVI procedures, patients with an IACT ≥ 123 ms had a higher AF recurrence rate than those with an IACT < 123 ms (p = 0.002). In conclusion, a prolonged IACT of ≥ 123 ms may be a useful marker for predicting AF recurrences after both initial and multiple CPVI procedures for PerAF.
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- Satoshi Higuchi
- Department of Cardiology, Tokyo Women'S Medical University, 8-1, Kawada-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-8666, Japan
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- Department of Cardiology, Tokyo Women'S Medical University, 8-1, Kawada-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-8666, Japan.
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- Department of Cardiology, Tokyo Women'S Medical University, 8-1, Kawada-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-8666, Japan
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- Department of Cardiology, Tokyo Women'S Medical University, 8-1, Kawada-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-8666, Japan
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- Department of Cardiology, Tokyo Women'S Medical University, 8-1, Kawada-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-8666, Japan
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- Department of Cardiology, Tokyo Women'S Medical University, 8-1, Kawada-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-8666, Japan
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- Department of Cardiology, Tokyo Women'S Medical University, 8-1, Kawada-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-8666, Japan
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Molina Borao I, Urmeneta Ulloa J, Calvo Galiano N, Palanca Arias D, Jiménez Montañés L, López Ramón M. Sustained Ventricular Tachycardia After Thoracic Traumatism in a Patient With Repaired Tetralogy of Fallot. Rev Esp Cardiol (Engl Ed) 2018; 71:873-874. [PMID: 29042165 DOI: 10.1016/j.rec.2017.09.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2017] [Accepted: 06/28/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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- Isabel Molina Borao
- Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet, Zaragoza, Spain.
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- Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet, Zaragoza, Spain
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Zhou S, Sapp JL, Dawoud F, Horacek BM. Localization of Activation Origin on Patient-Specific Epicardial Surface by Empirical Bayesian Method. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2018; 66:1380-1389. [PMID: 30281434 DOI: 10.1109/tbme.2018.2872983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Ablation treatment of ventricular arrhythmias can be facilitated by pre-procedure planning aided by electrocardiographic inverse solution, which can help to localize the origin of arrhythmia. Our aim was to improve localization accuracy of the inverse solution by using a novel Bayesian approach. METHODS The inverse problem of electrocardiography was solved by reconstructing epicardial potentials from 120 body-surface electrocardiograms and from patient-specific geometry of the heart and torso for four patients suffering from scar-related ventricular tachycardia who underwent epicardial catheter mapping, which included pace-mapping. Simulations using dipole sources in patient-specific geometry were also performed. The proposed method, using dynamic spatio-temporal a priori constraints of the solution, was compared with classical Tikhonov methods based on fixed constraints. RESULTS The mean localization error of the proposed method for all available pacing sites (n=78) was significantly smaller than that achieved by Tikhonov methods; specifically, the localization accuracy for pacing in the normal tissue (n=17) was [Formula: see text] mm (mean ± SD) versus [Formula: see text] mm reported in the previous study using the same clinical data and Tikhonov regularization. Simulation experiments further supported these clinical findings. CONCLUSION The promising results of in vivo and in silico experiments presented in this study provide a strong incentive to pursuing further investigation of data-driven Bayesian methods in solving the electrocardiographic inverse problem. SIGNIFICANCE The proposed approach to localizing origin of ventricular activation sequence may have important applications in pre-procedure assessment of arrhythmias and in guiding their ablation treatment.
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Rogers AJ, Tamboli M, Narayan SM. Integrating mapping methods for atrial fibrillation. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol 2018; 41:1286-1288. [PMID: 30144115 PMCID: PMC6169992 DOI: 10.1111/pace.13476] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2018] [Accepted: 08/10/2018] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Laszki-Szcząchor K, Zwolińska D, Sobieszczańska M, Tabin M, Polak-Jonkisz D. Disturbances in intraventricular conduction in children with end-stage renal disease on peritoneal dialysis: A pilot study. ADV CLIN EXP MED 2018; 27:1225-1231. [PMID: 29808969 DOI: 10.17219/acem/69255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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BACKGROUND The progression of chronic kidney disease is accompanied by multi-organ disorders, among which cardiovascular diseases have the status of a serious clinical problem. The body surface potential mapping (BSPM) technique is a non-invasive method which enables the detection of pathological changes in the bioelectrical activity of the heart. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to identify possible disturbances in the intraventricular conduction system in peritoneally dialyzed children. MATERIAL AND METHODS Cardiac examination consisted of 12-lead electrocardiography, echocardiography and BSPM. The evaluation of disturbances in the cardio-electrical field was performed by comparing the qualitative and quantitative features of the heart potentials on the isopotential map. RESULTS Data was collected from 10 children treated with automatic peritoneal dialysis (APD) (mean age: 13.6 ±2.3 years) and 26 healthy children. The maps of dialyzed children showed a shift in positive isopotentials toward the left lower part of the thorax, while negative values were observed in its left upper part. A distribution of lines on the isopotential maps revealed disturbances in the stimulation spread within the heart ventricles, especially within the anterior fascicle of the left bundle branch of His. CONCLUSIONS Intraventricular conduction disturbances were observed in the left bundle branch of His in the peritoneally dialyzed children. The body surface potential mapping was a more sensitive method in identifying the early stage of conduction disturbances within the heart ventricles than 12-lead electrocardiography. Further research involving a larger population of dialyzed children is planned.
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- Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Wroclaw Medical University, Poland
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- Department of Pathophysiology, Wroclaw Medical University, Poland
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Noheria A. To the Editor- Fusion during entrainment at the cavotricuspid isthmus: When entrainment does not match our expectation. Heart Rhythm 2018; 15:e275. [PMID: 29940306 DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2018.06.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2018] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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- Amit Noheria
- Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
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Giffard-Roisin S, Delingette H, Jackson T, Webb J, Fovargue L, Lee J, Rinaldi CA, Razavi R, Ayache N, Sermesant M. Transfer Learning From Simulations on a Reference Anatomy for ECGI in Personalized Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2018; 66:343-353. [PMID: 29993409 DOI: 10.1109/tbme.2018.2839713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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GOAL Noninvasive cardiac electrophysiology (EP) model personalisation has raised interest for instance in the scope of predicting EP cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) response. However, the restricted clinical applicability of current methods is due in particular to the limitation to simple situations and the important computational cost. METHODS We propose in this manuscript an approach to tackle these two issues. First, we analyze more complex propagation patterns (multiple onsets and scar tissue) using relevance vector regression and shape dimensionality reduction on a large simulated database. Second, this learning is performed offline on a reference anatomy and transferred onto patient-specific anatomies in order to achieve fast personalized predictions online. RESULTS We evaluated our method on a dataset composed of 20 dyssynchrony patients with a total of 120 different cardiac cycles. The comparison with a commercially available electrocardiographic imaging (ECGI) method shows a good identification of the cardiac activation pattern. From the cardiac parameters estimated in sinus rhythm, we predicted five different paced patterns for each patient. The comparison with the body surface potential mappings (BSPM) measured during pacing and the ECGI method indicates a good predictive power. CONCLUSION We showed that learning offline from a large simulated database on a reference anatomy was able to capture the main cardiac EP characteristics from noninvasive measurements for fast patient-specific predictions. SIGNIFICANCE The fast CRT pacing predictions are a step forward to a noninvasive CRT patient selection and therapy optimisation, to help clinicians in these difficult tasks.
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Rao BH, Azam MS, Manik G. Management of electrical storm of unstable ventricular tachycardia in post myocardial infarction patients: A single centre experience. Indian Heart J 2018; 70:289-295. [PMID: 29716709 PMCID: PMC5993910 DOI: 10.1016/j.ihj.2017.07.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2017] [Revised: 06/03/2017] [Accepted: 07/17/2017] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE This is a case series of consecutive patients with past myocardial infarction presenting with Electrical Storm (ES) of unstable ventricular tachycardia (VT) treated by a protocol directed algorithm. METHODS Management protocol involved treatment of reversible causes, ventilatory & hemodynamic support, administration of antiarrhythmic drugs (AAD) & maximally tolerated doses of beta-blockers, stellate ganglionectomy and Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) guided by Electro Anatomic Mapping (EAM). Patients were followed up periodically with review of device data logs. RESULTS There were 12 patients (mean age=61.38±6.48years & mean LVEF=31.92±4.23%). Presentation was recurrent ICD shocks (n=5) or VT (n=7). All were mechanically ventilated. Reversible causes were identified in 4 patients and appropriately addressed. Totally 8 patients underwent endocardial substrate modification by EAM & RFA. Endocardial LV Voltage mapping demonstrated a mean scar area of 70.04±17.63 sq.cm (27.04±6.20% of mapped area). The electrograms targeted for ablation included late potentials, fractionated electrograms, double potentials and channels within the scar. Two patients had stellate ganglionectomy in addition. Ten patients (83.3%) survived to discharge, all of whom are alive at a follow up of 30.12±19months free of ES. VT free survival at end of follow up was 80%. No patient had hospitalization related to VT. Single episode of VT recurrence was seen in 2 patients at 7 months and 1year of follow up respectively. CONCLUSION In post myocardial infarction patients presenting with ES and unstable VT, a protocol driven approach involving substrate modification targeting abnormal electrograms improves outcomes.
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- B Hygriv Rao
- Division of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Arrhythmia, Research & Training Society, India.
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- Department of Cardiology, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, India.
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Coll-Font J, Erem B, Brooks DH. A Potential-Based Inverse Spectral Method to Noninvasively Localize Discordant Distributions of Alternans on the Heart From the ECG. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2017; 65:1554-1563. [PMID: 28749343 DOI: 10.1109/tbme.2017.2732159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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T-wave alternans (TWA), defined as the beat-to-beat alternation in amplitude of the T-waves, has been shown to be linked to ventricular fibrillation (VF). However, current TWA tests have high sensitivity but low specificity in determining who is at risk. To overcome this limitation, it might be helpful to determine the spatial distribution of any regions on the heart that alternate in opposite phase. Understanding these spatial distributions in relation to the regular activation of the heart could help explain the mechanism for the genesis of VF and thus disambiguate the low specificity of TWA. GOAL Image the spatial distribution of TWA on the heart surface from ECG measurements. METHODS We introduced the inverse spectral method (ISM), a tailored inverse (or ElectroCardioGraphic Imaging) solution designed specifically to noninvasively image cases of TWA on the heart. RESULTS We evaluate the ISM on its capacity to reliably detect the spatial distributions of TWA compared against a standard TWA detection method applied directly to the electrograms on the heart surface. We report on results from both a series of synthetic simulations of TWA generated using the ECGSIM software and a set of continuous epicardial surface voltage recordings from a canine experiment. ISM detected TWA distributions that matched the phase of the true underlying out-of-phase regions over and of the heart surface, respectively. CONCLUSION Our results suggest that ISM is capable of reliably detecting the different regions present in a TWA distribution across a wide variety of TWA locations on the heart in simulation and in the face of transients and nonidealities in the canine recordings.
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Life expectancy of patients with rToF has considerably improved due to refined surgical interventions. Monomorphic fast VTs are frequently encountered in adult patients with rToF. The dominant substrate of VT is anatomical isthmuses bordered by surgical incisions, patch material and valve annuli. Substrate based ablation strategies aim to transect all slow conducting anatomical isthmuses (SCAI) as identified by electroanatomical mapping. Procedural success is defined as non-inducibility of VT and confirmed conduction block over the SCAI resulting in long-term VT free survival in most patients. The identification of SCAIs in rToF may have important implications for risk stratification and preventive treatment.
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- Katja Zeppenfeld
- Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Postal Zone: C-05-P, PO Box 9600, Leiden 2300 RC, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Postal Zone: C-05-P, PO Box 9600, Leiden 2300 RC, The Netherlands
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Most postinfarct ventricular tachycardias (VT) are sustained by a reentrant mechanism. The "protected isthmus" of the reentrant circuit is critical for the maintenance of VTs and the target for catheter ablation. In this article, the authors describe the technique of pace-mapping during sinus rhythm to unmask postinfarct VT isthmuses. A pace-mapping map should be considered as the surrogate of an activation map during VT, in both patients with a normal heart and patients with a structural heart disease. Pace mapping is useful to unmask VT isthmuses in patients with postinfarct reentrant VTs.
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- Christian de Chillou
- Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Nancy, rue du Morvan, 54511 Vandœuvre lès-Nancy F-54500, France; INSERM-IADI, U947, rue du Morvan, 54511 Vandœuvre lès-Nancy F-54500, France.
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- Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Nancy, rue du Morvan, 54511 Vandœuvre lès-Nancy F-54500, France; INSERM-IADI, U947, rue du Morvan, 54511 Vandœuvre lès-Nancy F-54500, France
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- Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Nancy, rue du Morvan, 54511 Vandœuvre lès-Nancy F-54500, France; INSERM-IADI, U947, rue du Morvan, 54511 Vandœuvre lès-Nancy F-54500, France
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Casella M, Dello Russo A, Pelargonio G, Del Greco M, Zingarini G, Piacenti M, Di Cori A, Casula V, Marini M, Pizzamiglio F, Zucchetti M, Riva S, Russo E, Narducci ML, Soldati E, Panchetti L, Startari U, Bencardino G, Perna F, Santangeli P, Di Biase L, Cichocki F, Fattore G, Bongiorni M, Picano E, Natale A, Tondo C. Near zerO fluoroscopic exPosure during catheter ablAtion of supRavenTricular arrhYthmias: the NO-PARTY multicentre randomized trial. Europace 2016; 18:1565-1572. [PMID: 26559916 PMCID: PMC5072134 DOI: 10.1093/europace/euv344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2015] [Accepted: 09/13/2015] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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AIMS Aim of this study was to compare a minimally fluoroscopic radiofrequency catheter ablation with conventional fluoroscopy-guided ablation for supraventricular tachycardias (SVTs) in terms of ionizing radiation exposure for patient and operator and to estimate patients' lifetime attributable risks associated with such exposure. METHODS AND RESULTS We performed a prospective, multicentre, randomized controlled trial in six electrophysiology (EP) laboratories in Italy. A total of 262 patients undergoing EP studies for SVT were randomized to perform a minimally fluoroscopic approach (MFA) procedure with the EnSiteTMNavXTM navigation system or a conventional approach (ConvA) procedure. The MFA was associated with a significant reduction in patients' radiation dose (0 mSv, iqr 0-0.08 vs. 8.87 mSv, iqr 3.67-22.01; P < 0.00001), total fluoroscopy time (0 s, iqr 0-12 vs. 859 s, iqr 545-1346; P < 0.00001), and operator radiation dose (1.55 vs. 25.33 µS per procedure; P < 0.001). In the MFA group, X-ray was not used at all in 72% (96/134) of cases. The acute success and complication rates were not different between the two groups (P = ns). The reduction in patients' exposure shows a 96% reduction in the estimated risks of cancer incidence and mortality and an important reduction in estimated years of life lost and years of life affected. Based on economic considerations, the benefits of MFA for patients and professionals are likely to justify its additional costs. CONCLUSION This is the first multicentre randomized trial showing that a MFA in the ablation of SVTs dramatically reduces patients' exposure, risks of cancer incidence and mortality, and years of life affected and lost, keeping safety and efficacy. TRIAL REGISTRATION clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT01132274.
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- Michela Casella
- Cardiac Arrhythmia Research Centre, Centro Cardiologico Monzino, IRCCS, Via Parea, 4, 20138 Milan, Italy
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- Cardiac Arrhythmia Research Centre, Centro Cardiologico Monzino, IRCCS, Via Parea, 4, 20138 Milan, Italy
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- Ospedale Santa Maria della Misericordia, Azienda Ospedaliera di Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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- CNR, Institute of Clinical Physiology, Fondazione G. Monasterio, Pisa, Italy
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- Second Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Cardio-Thoracic and Vascular Department, University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Medical Research Center Oulu, Oulu University Hospital and University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Department of Radiology, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Cardiac Arrhythmia Research Centre, Centro Cardiologico Monzino, IRCCS, Via Parea, 4, 20138 Milan, Italy
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- Cardiac Arrhythmia Research Centre, Centro Cardiologico Monzino, IRCCS, Via Parea, 4, 20138 Milan, Italy
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- Cardiac Arrhythmia Research Centre, Centro Cardiologico Monzino, IRCCS, Via Parea, 4, 20138 Milan, Italy
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- Cardiac Arrhythmia Research Centre, Centro Cardiologico Monzino, IRCCS, Via Parea, 4, 20138 Milan, Italy
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- Second Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Cardio-Thoracic and Vascular Department, University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- CNR, Institute of Clinical Physiology, Fondazione G. Monasterio, Pisa, Italy
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- CNR, Institute of Clinical Physiology, Fondazione G. Monasterio, Pisa, Italy
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- Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute at St Davis Medical Center, Austin, TX, USA
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- Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute at St Davis Medical Center, Austin, TX, USA
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- Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management and CERGAS, Università Bocconi, Milan, Italy
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- Second Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Cardio-Thoracic and Vascular Department, University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute at St Davis Medical Center, Austin, TX, USA
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- Cardiac Arrhythmia Research Centre, Centro Cardiologico Monzino, IRCCS, Via Parea, 4, 20138 Milan, Italy
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Lurz JA, Arya A, Hindricks G, Dinov B. A Prima Vista Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia: Should We Abandon the Mapping of VT? J Am Coll Cardiol 2016; 68:669-670. [PMID: 27491915 DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2016.03.606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2016] [Accepted: 03/22/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Ferrer A, Sebastián R, Sánchez-Quintana D, Rodríguez JF, Godoy EJ, Martínez L, Saiz J. Detailed Anatomical and Electrophysiological Models of Human Atria and Torso for the Simulation of Atrial Activation. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0141573. [PMID: 26523732 PMCID: PMC4629897 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0141573] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2015] [Accepted: 10/09/2015] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Atrial arrhythmias, and specifically atrial fibrillation (AF), induce rapid and irregular activation patterns that appear on the torso surface as abnormal P-waves in electrocardiograms and body surface potential maps (BSPM). In recent years both P-waves and the BSPM have been used to identify the mechanisms underlying AF, such as localizing ectopic foci or high-frequency rotors. However, the relationship between the activation of the different areas of the atria and the characteristics of the BSPM and P-wave signals are still far from being completely understood. In this work we developed a multi-scale framework, which combines a highly-detailed 3D atrial model and a torso model to study the relationship between atrial activation and surface signals in sinus rhythm. Using this multi scale model, it was revealed that the best places for recording P-waves are the frontal upper right and the frontal and rear left quadrants of the torso. Our results also suggest that only nine regions (of the twenty-one structures in which the atrial surface was divided) make a significant contribution to the BSPM and determine the main P-wave characteristics.
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- Ana Ferrer
- Centro de Investigación e Innovación en Bioingeniería (Ci2B), Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain
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- Computational Multiscale Physiology Lab (CoMMLab), Department of Computer Science, Universitat de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain
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- Applied Mechanics and Bioengineering Group (AMB), Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain, and Dipartimento di Chimica, Materiali e Ingegneria Chimica “Giulio Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
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- Centro de Investigación e Innovación en Bioingeniería (Ci2B), Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación e Innovación en Bioingeniería (Ci2B), Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación e Innovación en Bioingeniería (Ci2B), Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain
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Senderek T, Bednarek J, Lelakowski J. [The effectiveness of RF ablation of ventricular ectopic beats made using selected mapping techniques]. Pol Merkur Lekarski 2015; 39:271-276. [PMID: 26637090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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UNLABELLED Only several world-leading centers have summarized outcomes of invasive therapy of ventricular arrhythmia. AIM The aim of the work is to compare the effectiveness of RF ablation of ventricular arrhythmia. MATERIALS AND METHODS 183 patients (111 males, mean age 50 ± 17) underwent RF ablation of ventricular ecopic beats (VEB). Retrospective analysis of procedural protocols, in- and outpatient medical records was performed. RF ablation was done using electroanatomical CARTO system, Pacemapping or both methods (CARTO + Pacemapping). RESULTS Long-term ablation effectiveness was as follows: CARTO - success rate assessed during the ablation procedure was 84,4%; during post operation period follow-up 70,3%, and in long term followup 71,1%; Pacemaping-success rate assessed during the ablation procedure was 91,7%; during post operation period follow-up 83,3%, and in long term follow-up 75,0%; CARTO + Pacemaping - success rate assessed during the ablation procedure was 85,4%; during post operation period follow-up 70,8%, and in long term follow-up 77,1%. Mean amount of VEBs per day before ablation was 18750 ± 12560 (2435 to 50000) and after ablation 575 ± 428 (0 to 1550), p<0.001. Best results were achieved in cases where both mapping techniques were used in combination. Among clinical parameters affecting long-term ablation effectiveness, only hypertension was found to significantly decrease long-term effectiveness of VEB ablation. Only ablation temperature and energy affected long-term therapy effect significantly (p<0,0014; HR=0,84). After the ablation, there was improvement of the left-ventricular end-diastolic diameter and ejection fraction. CONCLUSIONS Long-term success of ventricular extrasystoly ablation in combined method (CARTO+Pacemapping) was slightly higher compared in CARTO technique and in Pacemapping technique. Classic RF ablation is effective and safe, therefore it can be considered as first-line therapy. In ablation, precise localization of arrhythmic focus is the most important factor. Ablation temperature and energy were significantly correlated to long-term ablation effectiveness. After ventricular extrasystoly ablation, left ventricle ejection fraction increased and left ventricle end-diastolic diameter decreased. Hypertension significantly decreased long-term effectiveness of ventricular extrasystoly ablation.
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- Tomasz Senderek
- The John Paul II Hospital in Kraków, Department of Electrocardiology
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- The John Paul II Hospital in Kraków, Department of Electrocardiology
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- Student Scientific Society of Biomedical Engineering - InBio Division of Biomedical Computer Science Department of Computer Science and Materials Science University of Silesia
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