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Dispersion of repolarization in canine ventricle and the electrocardiographic T wave: Tp-e interval does not reflect transmural dispersion.

Abstract：

BACKGROUND:The concept that the interval between the peak (T(peak)) and the end (T(end)) of the T wave (T(p-e)) is a measure of transmural dispersion of repolarization time is widely accepted but has not been tested rigorously by transmural mapping of the intact heart. OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study was to test the relationship of T(p-e) to transmural dispersion of repolarization by correlating local repolarization times at endocardial, midmural, and epicardial sites in the left and right ventricles with the T wave of the ECG. METHODS:Local activation times, activation-recovery intervals, and repolarization times were measured at 98 epicardial sites and up to 120 midmural and endocardial sites in eight open-chest dogs. In four of the dogs, long-term cardiac memory was induced by 3 weeks of ventricular pacing at 130 bpm because previous data suggest that, in this setting, delayed epicardial repolarization increases transmural dispersion. The other four dogs were sham operated. RESULTS:In sham dogs, T(p-e) was 41 +/- 2.2 ms (X +/- SEM), whereas the transmural dispersion of repolarization time was 2.7 +/- 4.2 ms (not significant between endocardium and epicardium). Cardiac memory was associated with evolution of a transmural gradient of 14.5 +/- 1.9 ms (P <.02), with epicardium repolarizing later than endocardium. The corresponding T(p-e) was 43 +/- 2.3 ms (not different from sham). In combined sham and memory dogs, T(p-e) intervals did not correlate with transmural dispersion of repolarization times. In contrast, dispersion of repolarization of the whole heart (measured as the difference between the earliest and the latest moment of repolarization from all left and right ventricular, endocardial, intramural, and epicardial recording sites) did correlate with T(p-e) (P <.0005, r = 0.98), although the latter underestimated total repolarization time by approximately 35%. The explanation for this finding is that parts of the heart fully repolarize before the moment of T(peak). CONCLUSION:T(p-e) does not correlate with transmural dispersion of repolarization but is an index of total dispersion of repolarization.

journal_name

Heart Rhythm

journal_title

Heart rhythm

authors

Opthof T,Coronel R,Wilms-Schopman FJ,Plotnikov AN,Shlapakova IN,Danilo P Jr,Rosen MR,Janse MJ

doi

10.1016/j.hrthm.2006.11.022

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2007-03-01 00:00:00

pages

341-8

issue

eissn

1547-5271

issn

1556-3871

pii

S1547-5271(06)02217-X

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Dispersion of repolarization in canine ventricle and the electrocardiographic T wave: Tp-e interval does not reflect transmural dispersion.