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ArticleMedical & biological engineering & computing2018

Spatial indices of repolarization correlate with non-ST elevation myocardial ischemia in patients with chest pain.

Salah Al-Zaiti, Ervin Sejdić, Jan Nemec, Clifton Callaway, Prem Soman, Robert Lux

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Article in Medical & biological engineering & computing, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Salah Al-ZaitiDepartment of Acute & Tertiary Care Nursing, School of Nursing, University of Pittsburgh, 336 Victoria Building, 3500 Victoria St, Pittsburgh, PA, 15261, USA. ssa33@pitt.edu.
Ervin SejdićDepartment of Computer & Electrical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Jan NemecDepartment of Cardiac Electrophysiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Clifton CallawayDepartment of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Prem SomanDepartment of Nuclear Cardiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh,, PA, USA.
Robert LuxDepartment of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake, UT, USA.
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mild-to-moderate ischemia does not result in ST segment elevation on the electrocardiogram (ECG), but rather non-specific changes in the T wave, which are frequently labeled as non-diagnostic for ischemia. Robust methods to quantify such T wave heterogeneity can have immediate clinical applications. We sought to evaluate the effects of spontaneous ischemia on the evolution of spatial T wave changes, based on the eigenvalues of the spatial correlation matrix of the ECG, in patients undergoing nuclear cardiac imaging for evaluating intermittent chest pain. We computed T wave complexity (TWC), the ratio of the second to the first eigenvalue of repolarization, from 5-min baseline and 5-min peak-stress Holter ECG recordings. Our sample included 30 males and 20 females aged 63 ± 11 years. Compared to baseline, significant changes in TWC were only seen in patients with ischemia (n = 10) during stress testing, but not among others. The absolute changes in TWC were significantly larger in the ischemia group compared to others, with a pattern that seemed to depend on the severity or anatomic distribution of ischemia. Our results demonstrate that ischemia-induced changes in T wave morphology can be meaningfully quantified from the surface 12-lead ECG, suggesting an important opportunity for improving diagnostics in patients with chest pain.

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Electrocardiography, AmbulatoryAdultAgedAged, 80 and overChest PainDemographyFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedMultivariate AnalysisNon-ST Elevated Myocardial InfarctionTomography, Emission-Computed, Single-PhotonElectrocardiogramIschemiaT waveVentricular repolarization dispersion

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