Electrocardiographic findings in patients with arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy and right bundle branch block ventricular tachycardia

© The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology..

AIMS: Little is known about patients with right bundle branch block (RBBB)-ventricular tachycardia (VT) and arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM). Our aims were: (i) to describe electrocardiogram (ECG) characteristics of sinus rhythm (SR) and VT; (ii) to correlate SR with RBBB-VT ECGs; and (iii) to compare VT ECGs with electro-anatomic mapping (EAM) data.

METHODS AND RESULTS: From the European Survey on ACM, 70 patients with spontaneous RBBB-VT were included. Putative left ventricular (LV) sites of origin (SOOs) were estimated with a VT-axis-derived methodology and confirmed by EAM data when available. Overall, 49 (70%) patients met definite Task Force Criteria. Low QRS voltage predominated in lateral leads (n = 37, 55%), but QRS fragmentation was more frequent in inferior leads (n = 15, 23%). T-wave inversion (TWI) was equally frequent in inferior (n = 28, 42%) and lateral (n = 27, 40%) leads. TWI in inferior leads was associated with reduced LV ejection fraction (LVEF; 46 ± 10 vs. 53 ± 8, P = 0.02). Regarding SOOs, the inferior wall harboured 31 (46%) SOOs, followed by the lateral wall (n = 17, 25%), the anterior wall (n = 15, 22%), and the septum (n = 4, 6%). EAM data were available for 16 patients and showed good concordance with the putative SOOs. In all patients with superior-axis RBBB-VT who underwent endo-epicardial VT activation mapping, VT originated from the LV.

CONCLUSIONS: In patients with ACM and RBBB-VT, RBBB-VTs originated mainly from the inferior and lateral LV walls. SR depolarization and repolarization abnormalities were frequent and associated with underlying variants.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:25

Enthalten in:

Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology - 25(2023), 3 vom: 30. März, Seite 1025-1034

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Laredo, Mikael [VerfasserIn]
Tovia-Brodie, Oholi [VerfasserIn]
Milman, Anat [VerfasserIn]
Michowitz, Yoav [VerfasserIn]
Roudijk, Rob W [VerfasserIn]
Peretto, Giovanni [VerfasserIn]
Badenco, Nicolas [VerfasserIn]
Te Riele, Anneline S J M [VerfasserIn]
Sala, Simone [VerfasserIn]
Duthoit, Guillaume [VerfasserIn]
Arbelo, Elena [VerfasserIn]
Ninni, Sandro [VerfasserIn]
Gasperetti, Alessio [VerfasserIn]
van Tintelen, J Peter [VerfasserIn]
Paglino, Gabriele [VerfasserIn]
Waintraub, Xavier [VerfasserIn]
Andorin, Antoine [VerfasserIn]
Peichl, Petr [VerfasserIn]
Bosman, Laurens P [VerfasserIn]
Calo, Leonardo [VerfasserIn]
Giustetto, Carla [VerfasserIn]
Radinovic, Andrea [VerfasserIn]
Jorda, Paloma [VerfasserIn]
Casado-Arroyo, Ruben [VerfasserIn]
Zorio, Esther [VerfasserIn]
Bermúdez-Jiménez, Francisco J [VerfasserIn]
Behr, Elijah R [VerfasserIn]
Havranek, Stepan [VerfasserIn]
Tfelt-Hansen, Jacob [VerfasserIn]
Sacher, Frederic [VerfasserIn]
Hermida, Jean-Sylvain [VerfasserIn]
Nof, Eyal [VerfasserIn]
Casella, Michela [VerfasserIn]
Kautzner, Josef [VerfasserIn]
Lacroix, Dominique [VerfasserIn]
Brugada, Josep [VerfasserIn]
Duru, Firat [VerfasserIn]
Bella, Paolo Della [VerfasserIn]
Gandjbakhch, Estelle [VerfasserIn]
Hauer, Richard [VerfasserIn]
Belhassen, Bernard [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy
Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy
ECG
Journal Article
Site of origin
Ventricular arrhythmia

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Date Completed 03.04.2023

Date Revised 08.05.2023

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/europace/euac267

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM351468099