QT interval dispersion in healthy subjects and survivors of sudden cardiac death: Circadian variation in a twenty-four-hour assessment

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 79, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1190-1193

  Molnar, Janos ^b   Rosenthal, James E ^b   Weiss, Jerry S ^b   Somberg, John C ^a  

^a ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART DEATH; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT INTERVAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUDDEN DEATH;

ADULT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESUSCITATION;

EID: 0030906638     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(97)00080-5     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Moss AJ. Measurement of the QT interval and the risk associated with QTc prolongation: a review. Am J Cardiol 1993;72:23B-25B.
2. Puddu PE, Bourassa MG. Prediction of sudden death from QTc interval prolongation in patients with chronic ischemic heart disease. J Electrocardiol 1986;19:203-212.
3. Schwartz PJ, Wolf S. QT interval prolongation as predictor of sudden death in patients with myocardial infarction. Circulation 1978;57:1074-1077.
4. Day CP, McComb JM, Campbell RWF. QT dispersion: an indication of arrhythmia risk in patients with long QT intervals. Br Heart J 1990;63:342-344.
5. Perkiomaki JS, Koistinen MJ, Yli-Mayry S, Huikuri HV. Dispersion of QT interval in patients with and without susceptibility to ventricular tachyarrhythmias after previous myocardial infarction. J Am Coll Cardiol 1995;26:174-179.
6. van de Loo A, Arendts W, Hohnloser SH. Variability of QT dispersion measurements in the surface electrocardiogram in patients with acute myocardial infarction and in normal subjects. Am J Cardiol 1994;74:1113-1118.
7. Barr CS, Naas A, Freeman M, Lang CC, Struthers AD. QT dispersion and sudden unexpected death in chronic heart failure. Lancet 1994;343:327-329.
8. Zareba W, Moss AJ, le Cessie S. Dispersion of ventricular repolarization and arrhythmic cardiac death in coronary artery disease. Am J Cardiol 1994;74:550-553.
9. Pye M, Quinn AC, Cobbe SM. QT interval dispersion: a non-invasive marker of susceptibility to arrhythmia in patients with sustained ventricular arrhythmias? Br Heart J 1994;71:511-514.
10. Buja G, Miorelli M, Turrini P, Melacini P, Nava A. Comparison of QT dispersion in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy between patients with and without ventricular arrhythmias and sudden death. Am J Cardiol 1993;72:973-976.
11. Morganroth J, Brozovich FV, McDonald JT, Jacobs RA. Variability of the QT measurement in healthy men, with implications for selections of an abnormal QT value to predict drug toxicity and proarrhythmia. Am J Cardiol 1991;67:774-776.
12. Sarma JSM, Venkataraman K, Nicod P, Polikar R, Smith J, Schoenbaum MP, Singh BN. Circadian rhythmicity of rate-normalized QT interval in hypothyroidism and its significance for development of class 111 antiarrhythmic agents. Am J Cardiol 1990;66:959-963.
13. Molnar J, Zhang F, Weiss JS, Ehlert AF, Rosenthal JA. Diurnal pattern of QTc interval: how long is prolonged? Possible relation to circadian triggers of cardiovascular events. J Am Coll Cardiol 1996;27:76-83.
14. Goldberg RJ, Bengtsen J, Chen Z, Anderson K, Locati E, Levy D. Duration of the QT interval and total and cardiovascular mortality in healthy persons (the Framingham Heart Study experience). Am J Cardiol 1991;67:55-58.
15. Muller JE, Tofler GH, Stone PH. Circadian variation and triggers of onset of acute cardiovascular disease. Circulation 1989;79:733-743.
16. Priori SG, Napolitano C, Diehl L, Schwartz PJ. Dispersion of the QT interval. A marker of therapeutic efficacy in the idiopathic long QT syndrome. Circulation 1994;89:1681-1689.
17. Hutchinson LA, Moreno F, Ehlert FA, Steiberg JS. A new noninvasive test to predict inducible ventricular tachycardia in patients with unexplained syncope: QT dispersion (abstr). J Am Coll Cardiol 1995;25:389A.
18. Day CP, McComb JM, Matthews J, Campbell RWF. Reduction in QT dispersion by sotalol following myocardial infarction. Eur Heart J 1991;12:423-427.
19. Moore EN. Mechanism and models to predict a QTc effect. Am J Cardiol 1993;72:4B-9B.
20. Cui G, Sen L, Sager P, Uppal P, Singh BN. Effects of amicdarone, sematilide, and sotalol on QT dispersion. Am J Cardiol 1994;74:896-900.
21. Savard P, Cardinal R, Nadeau RA, Armour JA. Epicardial distribution of ST segment and T wave changes produced by stimulation of intiathoracic ganglia or cardiopulmonary nerves in dogs. J Auton Nerve Syst 1991;34:47-57.
22. Higham PD, Hilton CJ, Aitcheson JD, Furniss SS, Bourke JP, Campbell RWF. Does QT dispersion reflect dispersion of ventricular recovery? (abstr) Circulation 1992;86(suppl I):I-392.
23. Zabel MJ, Portnoy S, Franz MR. Electrocardiographic indexes of dispersion of ventricular repolarization: an isolated heart validation study. J Am Coll Cardiol 1995;25:746-752.
24. Somberg JC, Smith TW. Localization of the neurally mediated arrhythmogenic properties of digitalis. Science 1979;204:312-323.
25. Garson A. How to measure the QT interval-what is normal? Am J Cardiol 1993;72:14B-16B.