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Vassilios P Vassilikos1, Lilian Mantziari2, Georgios Dakos1
1First Department of Cardiology, AHEPA University Hospital, Aristotle University Medical School, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Background:
Wider QRS and left bundle branch block morphology are related to response to cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). A novel time-frequency analysis of the QRS complex may provide additional information in predicting response to CRT.
Methods:
Signal-averaged electrocardiograms were prospectively recorded, before CRT, in orthogonal leads and QRS decomposition in three frequency bands was performed using the Morlet wavelet transformation.
Results:
Thirty eight patients (age 65±10years, 31 males) were studied. CRT responders (n=28) had wider baseline QRS compared to non-responders and lower QRS energies in all frequency bands. The combination of QRS duration and mean energy in the high frequency band had the best predicting ability (AUC 0.833, 95%CI 0.705-0.962, p=0.002) followed by the maximum energy in the high frequency band (AUC 0.811, 95%CI 0.663-0.960, p=0.004).
Conclusions:
Wavelet transformation of the QRS complex is useful in predicting response to CRT.
