title: New electrocardiographic criteria for diagnosing right ventricular hypertrophy in mitral stenosis--comparison with the Bonner's and Mortara's criteria.
abstract: New criteria for the diagnosis of right ventricular hypertrophy (RVH) using a point scoring system were developed after analyzing standard 12-lead ECGs in 155 patients with mitral stenosis verified by cardiac catheterization and 155 age and sex-matched apparently normal healthy subjects. ECGs were evaluated to identify criteria that provided maximum sensitivity and at least a 95% specificity: (1) the R wave magnitude in V1 had to be greater than 0.7 mV; (2) the S wave magnitude in V6 had to be greater than 0.3 mV; (3) the S wave magnitude in V1 less than 0.5 mV; (4) the R wave magnitude in V1 plus the S wave magnitude in V6 minus the S wave magnitude in V1 must be greater than 0 mV; and (5) the degree of frontal QRS axis had to be greater than 90 degrees. Application of these criteria achieved 25% (39 of 155) sensitivity in patients with RVH, significantly better (p less than 0.01) than the 17% sensitivity (17 of 155) of Bonner's criteria for the automated ECG. The specificity of the proposed criteria was 98% (152 of 155), significantly better (p less than 0.01) than the 90% specificity (139 of 155) of Mortara's criteria. Thus, it was evident that the accuracy of the proposed criteria was the highest among those criteria used in a point scoring system including the currently used automated ECG criteria for the diagnosis of RVH.
authors.affiliation: Fukuoka University Hospital, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hiroki
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Arakawa
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Muramatsu
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sugimoto
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sawayama
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Inoue
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kawai
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mizutani
mesh_terms: D006332:Cardiomegaly / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D004562:Electrocardiography / Q000295:instrumentation; D005189:False Positive Reactions; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D008946:Mitral Valve Stenosis / Q000150:complications*; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity