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Quantitative Spectral Assessment of Intracardiac Electrogram Characteristics Associated with Post Infarct Fibrosis and Ventricular Tachycardia

Sydney Medical School - Early Career Researcher Grant, 2018

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  • Title:
    Quantitative Spectral Assessment of Intracardiac Electrogram Characteristics Associated with Post Infarct Fibrosis and Ventricular Tachycardia
  • Author: Pouliopoulos, Jim ; Morellato, John
  • Subjects: FoR::110201 - Cardiology (incl. Cardiovascular Diseases) ; FoR::110299 - Cardiorespiratory Medicine and Haematology not elsewhere classified ; Minimal Dataset to supplement data associated with the project titled: Local Electrogram Fractionation and Post-Infarct VT
  • Is Part Of: Sydney Medical School - Early Career Researcher Grant, 2018
  • Description: The data set "Pouliopoulos_etal_min_dataset.xlsx" includes supplementary data associated with the project titled: "Quantitative Spectral Assessment of Intracardiac Electrogram Characteristics Associated with Post Infarct Fibrosis and Ventricular Tachycardia" Background: Post-myocardial infarction (MI) remodeling contributes to increased electrophysiological and structural heterogeneity and arrhythmogenesis. Utilising the post-infarct ovine model our aim was to determine unipolar electrogram frequency characteristics consequent to this remodeling and the development of Ventricular Tachycardia (VT). Methods and Results: Mapping studies were performed on 14 sheep at >1 month post-MI induction. Sheep were divided into VT inducible (n=7) and non-inducible (n=7) groups. Multielectrode needles (n=20) were deployed within and surrounding ventricular scar for electrophysiological assessment of electrogram amplitude and width. Spectral analysis of electrograms was undertaken using wavelet and fast fourier transformations (WFFT) to calculate root mean square (RMS) power intervals spanning 0-300Hz in 20Hz intervals. Quantitative assessment between electrophysiological and histological parameters including collagen density, and structural organization of the myocardium was performed. Increasing myocardial scar density resulted in attenuation of electrogram amplitude and RMS values. (all p<0.01). Between groups there were no differences in electrogram amplitude (p=0.37), however WFFT analysis revealed significantly higher RMS values in the VT group (p<0.05) in association with high frequency fractional components of the electrogram. As scar density increased, greater between-group differences in RMS were observed spanning this high frequency (200-280Hz) spectrum and which were proportionally dependent on the degree of structural disorganisation of the myocardium (p<0.001) and number of extrastimuli required to induce VT (p<0.05). Conclusion: High frequency unipolar electrogram spectral characteristics were quantitatively co-influenced by the presence of fibrosis and degree of myocardial structural dissorganisation and were associated with the propensity for development of VT. Sydney Medical School
  • Language: English
  • Source: Sydney eScholarship Repository
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