Significance of signal averaged electrocardiography in patients with advanced heart failure and intraventricular conduction delay.
OBJECTIVE
Signal averaged electrocardiography is a noninvasive method to evaluate the presence of the potentials that are generated by tissues, activated later than their usual timing in the cardiac cycle. The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the correlation of data obtained via signal averaged electrocardiography and left ventricular dyssynchrony.


METHODS
We included the patients with advanced systolic left ventricular dysfunction (ejection fraction </= 35%) and intraventricular conduction delay. All patients underwent surface 12-lead electrocardiography, signal averaged ECG, and tissue Doppler echocardiography.


RESULTS
The study included 72 patients with mean age of 56.45+/-13.59 years. Mean QRS duration was 0.14 +/- 0.02 sec; 63.9% of patients had left bundle branch block. Linear regression demonstrated significant correlations between filtered QRS duration and interventricular mechanical delay (P<0.000, Y= 0.41X-24.76), root mean square 40 and peak velocity difference (P: 0.001, Y=-0.39X+109.72), root mean square 40 and Ts-SD-12 (P:0.026, Y=-o.26X+40.08), low amplitude signals duration and peak velocity difference (P<0.000, Y=0.44X+67.3) and finally low amplitude signals duration and Ts-SD-12 (P:0.31, Y=0.26X+28.23) as well. Area under the curve in ROC of filtered QRS duration was significant for the detection of interventricular mechanical delay. Areas under the curves in ROC of low amplitude signal duration and root mean square 40 were significant for the detection of peak velocity difference.


CONCLUSIONS
Signal averaged electrocardiography can have a role in predicting the amount of ventricular dyssynchrony. The duration of low amplitude signals and root mean square 40 have significant linear relations to some indices of intraventricular dyssynchrony.
Alasti
Mohammad
M
Department of Cardiology, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Jondishapour University of Medical Sciences, Ahwaz, Iran. alastip@gmail.com
Haghjoo
Majid
M
Alizadeh
Abolfath
A
Nikoo
Mohammad Hossein
MH
Bonakdar
Hamid Reza
HR
Omidvar
Bita
B
Kharazi
Ali
A
Cheraghian
Bahman
B
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