Authors
Gherardo Finocchiaro, Michael Papadakis, Harshil Dhutia, Abbas Zaidi, Aneil Malhotra, Elena Fabi, Chiara Cappelletto, Joe Brook, Efstathios Papatheodorou, Bode Ensam, Christopher J Miles, Rachel Bastiaenen, Virginia Attard, Tessa Homfray, Rajan Sharma, Maite Tome, Gerald Carr-White, Marco Merlo, Elijah R Behr, Gianfranco Sinagra, Sanjay Sharma
Publication date
2018/8/29
Journal
Ep Europace
Volume
21
Issue
2
Pages
332-338
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Description
Aims
To characterize the most common electrocardiographic (ECG) abnormalities in patients with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC), including anterior T-wave inversion (TWI) and to compare the characteristics of TWI in patients with ARVC and in a cohort of young healthy athletes and sedentary individuals.
Methods and results
The study population consisted of 162 patients with a definite diagnosis of ARVC and 129 young controls with anterior TWI. Cardiac disease was excluded in all controls after a comprehensive diagnostic work-up. The ECG was abnormal in 131 patients with ARVC (81%). Abnormalities included anterior TWI (n = 82, 51%), QRS duration ratio V2:V5 >1.2 (n = 51, 31%), prolonged terminal S wave activation duration in V2 >55 ms (n = 42, 26%), inferior TWI (n = 30, 18%), and lateral TWI (n = 26, 16%). The J-point preceding …
Scholar articles
G Finocchiaro, M Papadakis, H Dhutia, A Zaidi… - Ep Europace, 2019