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V Jacquemet1, R Cassani González2, M Sturmer2
1Centre de Recherche, Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal, Canada; Département de Physiologie, Institut de Génie Biomédical, Université de Montréal, Canada.
Background And Purpose:
Measurement of QT intervals during atrial flutter (AFL) is relevant to monitor the safety of drug delivery. Our aim is to compare QT and QTc intervals in AFL patients before and after catheter ablation in order to validate QT measurement during AFL.
Methods:
25 patients suffering from AFL underwent catheter ablation; 9 were in sinus rhythm and 16 were in AFL at the time of the procedure. Holter ECGs were continuously recorded before, during and after the procedure. In AFL signals, flutter waves were subtracted using a previously-validated deconvolution-based method. Fridericia's QTc was computed before and after ablation after hysteresis reduction.
Results:
Comparing QTc values obtained before and after ablation showed that (1) the intervention did not significantly affect QTc, and (2) the QTc during AFL was concordant with the QTc value in sinus rhythm.
Conclusion:
QTc can be reliably measured in patients with AFL using flutter wave subtraction and hysteresis reduction.
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