Sinus rhythm QRS morphology reflects right ventricular activation and anatomical ventricular tachycardia isthmus conduction in repaired tetralogy of Fallot. 2023

Jeremy P Moore, and Kevin M Shannon, and Paul Khairy, and Victor Waldmann, and Francis Bessière, and Austin Burrows, and Jonathan Su, and Kalyanam Shivkumar
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Ahmanson/UCLA Adult Congenital Heart Disease Center, Los Angeles, California; UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, UCLA Health System, Los Angeles, California; Division of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, UCLA Health System, Los Angeles, California. Electronic address: jpmoore@mednet.ucla.edu.

BACKGROUND Patients with repaired tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) are at risk for ventricular tachycardia (VT) related to well-described anatomical isthmuses. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to explore QRS morphology as an indicator of anatomical isthmus conduction. METHODS Patients with repaired TOF and complete right bundle branch block referred for transcatheter pulmonary valve replacement (PVR) or presenting with sustained VT underwent comprehensive 3-dimensional mapping in sinus rhythm. Electrocardiographic characteristics were compared to right ventricular (RV) activation and anatomical isthmus conduction properties. RESULTS Twenty-two patients (19 pre-pulmonary valve replacement and 3 clinical VT) underwent comprehensive 3-dimensional mapping (median 39 years; interquartile range [IQR] 27-48 years; 12 [55%] male). Septal RV activation (median 40 ms; IQR 34-46 ms) corresponded to the nadir in lead V1 and free wall activation (median 71 ms; IQR 64-81 ms) to the transition point in the upstroke of the R' wave. Patients with isthmus block between the pulmonary annulus and the ventricular septal defect patch and between the ventricular septal defect patch and the tricuspid annulus (when present), were more likely to demonstrate lower amplitude R' waves in lead V1 (5.8 mV vs 9.4 mV; P = .005), QRS fragmentation in lead V1 (15 [94%] vs 2 [13%]; P < .001), and terminal S waves in lead aVF (15 [94%] vs 6 [40%]; P < .001) than those with intact conduction. During catheter ablation, these QRS changes developed during isthmus block. CONCLUSIONS For patients with repaired TOF, the status of septal isthmus conduction was evident from sinus rhythm QRS morphology. Low-amplitude, fragmented R' waves in lead V1 and terminal S waves in the inferior leads were related to septal isthmus conduction abnormalities, providing a mechanistic link between RV activation and common electrocardiographic findings.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008297 Male Males
D004562 Electrocardiography Recording of the moment-to-moment electromotive forces of the HEART as projected onto various sites on the body's surface, delineated as a scalar function of time. The recording is monitored by a tracing on slow moving chart paper or by observing it on a cardioscope, which is a CATHODE RAY TUBE DISPLAY. 12-Lead ECG,12-Lead EKG,12-Lead Electrocardiography,Cardiography,ECG,EKG,Electrocardiogram,Electrocardiograph,12 Lead ECG,12 Lead EKG,12 Lead Electrocardiography,12-Lead ECGs,12-Lead EKGs,12-Lead Electrocardiographies,Cardiographies,ECG, 12-Lead,EKG, 12-Lead,Electrocardiograms,Electrocardiographies, 12-Lead,Electrocardiographs,Electrocardiography, 12-Lead
D005260 Female Females
D006345 Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular Developmental abnormalities in any portion of the VENTRICULAR SEPTUM resulting in abnormal communications between the two lower chambers of the heart. Classification of ventricular septal defects is based on location of the communication, such as perimembranous, inlet, outlet (infundibular), central muscular, marginal muscular, or apical muscular defect. Ventricular Septal Defects,Intraventricular Septal Defects,Ventricular Septal Defect,Defect, Intraventricular Septal,Defect, Ventricular Septal,Defects, Intraventricular Septal,Intraventricular Septal Defect,Septal Defect, Intraventricular,Septal Defect, Ventricular,Septal Defects, Intraventricular,Septal Defects, Ventricular
D006352 Heart Ventricles The lower right and left chambers of the heart. The right ventricle pumps venous BLOOD into the LUNGS and the left ventricle pumps oxygenated blood into the systemic arterial circulation. Cardiac Ventricle,Cardiac Ventricles,Heart Ventricle,Left Ventricle,Right Ventricle,Left Ventricles,Right Ventricles,Ventricle, Cardiac,Ventricle, Heart,Ventricle, Left,Ventricle, Right,Ventricles, Cardiac,Ventricles, Heart,Ventricles, Left,Ventricles, Right
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D001145 Arrhythmias, Cardiac Any disturbances of the normal rhythmic beating of the heart or MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION. Cardiac arrhythmias can be classified by the abnormalities in HEART RATE, disorders of electrical impulse generation, or impulse conduction. Arrhythmia,Arrythmia,Cardiac Arrhythmia,Cardiac Arrhythmias,Cardiac Dysrhythmia,Arrhythmia, Cardiac,Dysrhythmia, Cardiac
D013771 Tetralogy of Fallot A combination of congenital heart defects consisting of four key features including VENTRICULAR SEPTAL DEFECTS; PULMONARY STENOSIS; RIGHT VENTRICULAR HYPERTROPHY; and a dextro-positioned AORTA. In this condition, blood from both ventricles (oxygen-rich and oxygen-poor) is pumped into the body often causing CYANOSIS. Fallot's Tetralogy,Tetralogy, Fallot's,Fallot Tetralogy,Fallots Tetralogy,Tetralogy, Fallot,Tetralogy, Fallots
D017180 Tachycardia, Ventricular An abnormally rapid ventricular rhythm usually in excess of 150 beats per minute. It is generated within the ventricle below the BUNDLE OF HIS, either as autonomic impulse formation or reentrant impulse conduction. Depending on the etiology, onset of ventricular tachycardia can be paroxysmal (sudden) or nonparoxysmal, its wide QRS complexes can be uniform or polymorphic, and the ventricular beating may be independent of the atrial beating (AV dissociation). Idiopathic Ventricular Tachycardia,Nonsustained Ventricular Tachycardia,Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardia,Ventricular Tachyarrhythmias,Ventricular Tachycardia,Idiopathic Ventricular Tachycardias,Nonsustained Ventricular Tachycardias,Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardias,Supraventricular Tachycardia, Paroxysmal,Tachyarrhythmia, Ventricular,Tachycardia, Idiopathic Ventricular,Tachycardia, Nonsustained Ventricular,Tachycardia, Paroxysmal Supraventricular,Ventricular Tachyarrhythmia,Ventricular Tachycardia, Idiopathic,Ventricular Tachycardia, Nonsustained,Ventricular Tachycardias

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