Abstract:
BACKGROUND:Comprehensive data based on single-beat analysis of the ventricular activation sequence during sinus rhythm in infarcted hearts are currently not available. It was the aim of our study (1) to measure and analyze these activation sequences on the epicardial surface of the right and left ventricles and on the left ventricular endocardial surface, and (2) to correlate specific activation patterns with the surface ECG. METHODS AND RESULTS:Isochronal maps were computed from 127 endocardial and epicardial unipolar electrograms recorded simultaneously during sinus rhythm in 45 post-myocardial infarction patients operated on for recurrent ventricular tachycardia (age, 57 +/- 10 years [mean +/- SD], left ventricular ejection fraction, 29 +/- 9%). Patients with bundle-branch block, but not with intraventricular conduction defects, were excluded. Data such as the timing of initial and terminal activation, the number of breakthroughs, the total activation time, and the number of ventricular segments without activation were measured and analyzed according to location of the myocardial infarction. The global epicardial activation was characterized in all patients by a widespread initial breakthrough on the anterior right ventricle (16 +/- 8 milliseconds after QRS onset), which was followed by one or two other breakthroughs in 65% of patients. Subsequently, three characteristic epicardial patterns of the activation spread were found: (1) radial, from the right to the left ventricle, found in all patients with inferoposterior myocardial infarction; (2) counterclockwise rotation, in which posteroseptal crossing preceded the anteroseptal crossing, found in 38% of patients with anterior myocardial infarction; and (3) pincerlike encirclement, in which both septal crossings and/or breakthroughs occurred nearly simultaneously and merged at the left ventricular free wall (typical for apical involvement in anterior and combined myocardial infarction). The simultaneous presence of multiple major activation wave fronts typically found in patients with the pincerlike activation pattern was reflected on the surface ECG by multiphasic, notched QRS complexes. Activation delay was observed in 89% of patients, and terminal activation was topographically related to myocardial infarction in 94% of patients. Delayed activation exceeding the surface QRS was observed in 11% and 31% of cases on the endocardium and epicardium, respectively. CONCLUSIONS:These results offer a solid basis for a more precise interpretation of a wide range of electrophysiological data and provide a framework for future investigations of surface ECG reflections of endocardial and epicardial activation patterns recorded in patients with chronic myocardial infarction.
journal_name
Circulationjournal_title
Circulationauthors
Hatala R,Savard P,Tremblay G,Pagé P,Cardinal R,Molin F,Kus T,Nadeau Rdoi
10.1161/01.cir.91.5.1480subject
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1995-03-01 00:00:00pages
1480-94issue
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0009-7322issn
1524-4539journal_volume
91pub_type
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