Natalia V Arteyeva1, Jan E Azarov2. 1. Department of Cardiac Physiology, Institute of Physiology, Komi Science Center, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 50, Pervomayskaya st., Syktyvkar 167982, Russia. Electronic address: natalia.arteyeva@gmail.com. 2. Department of Cardiac Physiology, Institute of Physiology, Komi Science Center, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 50, Pervomayskaya st., Syktyvkar 167982, Russia; Department of Physiology, Medical Institute of Pitirim Sorokin, Syktyvkar State University, 11, Babushkin st., Syktyvkar 167000, Russia.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: An increase in local dispersion of repolarization (DOR) may contribute more to arrhythmogenesis as compared to changes of global DOR. The aim of this simulation study was to find ECG markers of local increase in DOR in conditions where global DOR remains normal. METHODS: In the framework of van Oosterom and Oostendorp ECGSIM model, the local DOR was increased in 10 different ventricular locations by (1) action potential duration (APD) shortening/lengthening both on epi- and endocardium, (2) epicardial APD shortening, and (3) endocardial APD shortening. The simulation cases where the increase in local DOR was accompanied by increase in global DOR were excluded from consideration. T-wave parameters were analyzed in the simulated precordial and anatomically ordered limb leads. RESULTS: The increase in local DOR resulted in increased lead-to‑lead differences in Tpeak and Tend instants in 28 out of 32 simulated scenarios, and in an increased dispersion of Tpeak-Tend interval throughout 12 standard leads in 8 out of 32 simulated scenarios. In all simulations, the global DOR measured as a difference between earliest and latest repolarization times and standard APD deviation was the same. CONCLUSIONS: The local increase in DOR was expressed in increased lead-to‑lead differences in Tpeak and Tend instants between adjacent anatomically ordered standard leads (aVL, I, aVR(-), II, aVF, III, and V1-V6), even if global DOR, Tpeak-Tend interval and Tpeak-Tend dispersion were within a normal range.
BACKGROUND: An increase in local dispersion of repolarization (DOR) may contribute more to arrhythmogenesis as compared to changes of global DOR. The aim of this simulation study was to find ECG markers of local increase in DOR in conditions where global DOR remains normal. METHODS: In the framework of van Oosterom and Oostendorp ECGSIM model, the local DOR was increased in 10 different ventricular locations by (1) action potential duration (APD) shortening/lengthening both on epi- and endocardium, (2) epicardial APD shortening, and (3) endocardial APD shortening. The simulation cases where the increase in local DOR was accompanied by increase in global DOR were excluded from consideration. T-wave parameters were analyzed in the simulated precordial and anatomically ordered limb leads. RESULTS: The increase in local DOR resulted in increased lead-to‑lead differences in Tpeak and Tend instants in 28 out of 32 simulated scenarios, and in an increased dispersion of Tpeak-Tend interval throughout 12 standard leads in 8 out of 32 simulated scenarios. In all simulations, the global DOR measured as a difference between earliest and latest repolarization times and standard APD deviation was the same. CONCLUSIONS: The local increase in DOR was expressed in increased lead-to‑lead differences in Tpeak and Tend instants between adjacent anatomically ordered standard leads (aVL, I, aVR(-), II, aVF, III, and V1-V6), even if global DOR, Tpeak-Tend interval and Tpeak-Tend dispersion were within a normal range.