Orini, M;
Graham, A;
Dhinoja, M;
Hunter, R;
Schilling, RJ;
Chow, AW;
Taggart, P;
(2018)
Early Results on the Utilisation of ECG-Imaging during Catheter Ablation Procedures for Prediction of Sites of Earliest Activation during Re-entrant Ventricular Tachycardia.
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Computing in Cardiology 2018.
IEEE: Maastricht, Netherlands.
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Abstract
Success rate of ventricular tachycardia (VT) ablation remains sub-optimal. Current technology does not allow fast and accurate delineation of the ablation target. Noninvasive panoramic ECG-imaging (ECGI) offers the possibility of studying the interaction between arrhythmogenic substrate and earliest sites of activation during VT to improve ablation strategies. ECGI mapping (CardioInsight, Medtronic) was performed in 5 patients undergoing VT ablation. Ventricular pacing was delivered from the RV and three indices were measured at each ventricular site to map susceptibility to arrhythmia initiation: Re-entry vulnerability index (RVI), local dispersion of AT (∆AT) and local dispersion of repolarization (∆ARI). Regions of high susceptibility were defined as those corresponding to the bottom 5% of RV I and the upper 5% of ∆AT and ∆ARI. Morphologically distinct VTs were analyzed to measure the AT sequence and localize the region of earliest epicardial activation (AT < 5 ms). In total, 20 VTs were analyzed (4.0 ± 1.2 per patient). The minimum distance between the region of high vulnerability and the region of earliest AT during VT was 5.6 ± 8.6 mm for RV I, 6.1 ± 10.8 mm for ∆AT and 12.8 ± 22.4 mm for ∆ARI (P > 0.13 for all pair-wise comparison). The vulnerable region presented at least partial overlap with the region of earliest activation during VT in 50%, 55% and 50% of all VTs for RV I, ∆AT and ∆ARI, respectively. These early data confirm the mechanistic link between markers of arrhythmogenic risk and VT initiation and suggest that ECGI could be potentially used for targeting ablation in non-inducible or hemodynamically non-tolerated VTs.
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