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1Division of Cardiology, Shizuoka Red Cross Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan. afujiki@szrc.org
Background:
The aim of this study was to compare QT/RR relation based on a 15-s averaged beat ECG with a single beat ECG during atrial fibrillation (AF) and to determine which was better to estimate the QT interval after sinus restoration.
Methods And Results:
QT and RR intervals were measured using an automatic QT analyzing system in 33 patients who had both AF and sinus rhythm on the same 24-h Holter ECG recording. In 14 patients, antiarrhythmic drugs (AAD) were administered. QT/RR relations were analyzed from ECG waves obtained by the summation of consecutive QRS-T complexes during each 15-s period (QT/RR-average) and a single beat QRS-T (QT/RR-single). During sinus rhythm, the slope of QT/RR-average did not differ from that of QT/RR-single in patients with and without AAD. On the other hand, during AF, the slope of QT/RR-average was significantly greater than that of QT/RR-single (without AAD: 0.12±0.06 vs. 0.06±0.03, P<0.001; with AAD: 0.15±0.05 vs. 0.08±0.04, P<0.001). During AF, the QT interval at an RR interval of 1.2-s (QT-1.2) determined from QT/RR-average was significantly greater than QT-1.2 from QT/RR-single in patients with and without AAD. QT-1.2 in QT/RR-single during AF was significantly smaller than that during sinus rhythm but QT-1.2 in QT/RR-average during AF was not.
Conclusions:
The QT interval after sinus restoration could be estimated better using QT/RR-average than using QT/RR-single during AF.
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