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COMPARATIVE STUDY
JOURNAL ARTICLE
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Body surface distribution and response to drugs of ST segment elevation in Brugada syndrome: clinical implication of eighty-seven-lead body surface potential mapping and its application to twelve-lead electrocardiograms.
Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology 2000 April
INTRODUCTION: Body surface distribution and magnitude of ST segment elevation and their reflection in 12-lead ECGs have not been clarified in Brugada syndrome.
METHODS AND RESULTS: Eighty-seven-lead body surface potential mapping and 12-lead ECGs were recorded simultaneously in 25 patients with Brugada syndrome and 40 control patients. The amplitude of the ST segment 20 msec after the end of QRS (ST20) was measured from all 87 leads, and an ST isopotential map was constructed. The maximum ST elevation (maxST20) was distributed in an area of the right ventricular outflow tract in all Brugada patients, and it was larger than that in control patients (0.37 +/- 0.13 vs 0.12 +/- 0.04 mV; P < 0.0005). The maximum was observed on the level of the parasternal fourth intercostal space, on which the V1 and V2 leads of the standard 12-lead ECG were located, in 18 of the 25 Brugada patients in whom typical coved- or saddleback-type ST elevation was seen in leads V1 and V2. The maximum was located on the second intercostal space in the remaining seven Brugada patients in whom only a mild saddleback-type ST elevation was seen in leads V1 and V2 of the 12-lead ECG. Typical ST segment elevation was recognized in leads V1 and V2, which were recorded on the second or third intercostal space. ST elevation in Brugada patients was dramatically normalized by isoproterenol, a beta-adrenergic agonist (maxST20 = 0.17 +/- 0.08 mV; P < 0.0005 vs control conditions), and accentuated by disopyramide, an Na+ channel blocker (maxST20 = 0.50 +/- 0.15 mV; P < 0.0005 vs control conditions), without any change in the location of the maxST20.
CONCLUSION: Our data indicate that recordings of leads V1-V3 of the 12-lead ECG on the parasternal second or third intercostal space would be helpful in diagnosing suspected patients with Brugada syndrome. The data suggest that Na+ channel blockers are capable of accentuating ST elevation in leads V1-V3.
METHODS AND RESULTS: Eighty-seven-lead body surface potential mapping and 12-lead ECGs were recorded simultaneously in 25 patients with Brugada syndrome and 40 control patients. The amplitude of the ST segment 20 msec after the end of QRS (ST20) was measured from all 87 leads, and an ST isopotential map was constructed. The maximum ST elevation (maxST20) was distributed in an area of the right ventricular outflow tract in all Brugada patients, and it was larger than that in control patients (0.37 +/- 0.13 vs 0.12 +/- 0.04 mV; P < 0.0005). The maximum was observed on the level of the parasternal fourth intercostal space, on which the V1 and V2 leads of the standard 12-lead ECG were located, in 18 of the 25 Brugada patients in whom typical coved- or saddleback-type ST elevation was seen in leads V1 and V2. The maximum was located on the second intercostal space in the remaining seven Brugada patients in whom only a mild saddleback-type ST elevation was seen in leads V1 and V2 of the 12-lead ECG. Typical ST segment elevation was recognized in leads V1 and V2, which were recorded on the second or third intercostal space. ST elevation in Brugada patients was dramatically normalized by isoproterenol, a beta-adrenergic agonist (maxST20 = 0.17 +/- 0.08 mV; P < 0.0005 vs control conditions), and accentuated by disopyramide, an Na+ channel blocker (maxST20 = 0.50 +/- 0.15 mV; P < 0.0005 vs control conditions), without any change in the location of the maxST20.
CONCLUSION: Our data indicate that recordings of leads V1-V3 of the 12-lead ECG on the parasternal second or third intercostal space would be helpful in diagnosing suspected patients with Brugada syndrome. The data suggest that Na+ channel blockers are capable of accentuating ST elevation in leads V1-V3.
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