Some Controversies about Early Repolarization: The Haïssaguerre Syndrome
| Autor: | Andrés Ricardo Pérez-Riera, Peter Kukla, Marek Jastrzębski |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Benign early repolarization Early Repolarization Pattern business.industry General Medicine Precordial examination Physiology (medical) Internal medicine Electrocardiographic waveform medicine Cardiology ST segment Idiopathic ventricular fibrillation Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business Standard ECG J wave |
| Zdroj: | Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology. 20:409-418 |
| ISSN: | 1082-720X |
| DOI: | 10.1111/anec.12263 |
| Popis: | Controversy has followed the groundbreaking and cornerstone paper of Haissaguerre et al. Much of this controversy has been due to the use of the term "early repolarization pattern" and possible waveform morphologies on the standard 12-lead ECG ( it is 10 second strip) that could predict who will manifest the malignant arrhythmogenic syndrome described by Haissaguerre et al. The standard ECG definition of early repolarization pattern (ERP) or early repolarization variant (ERV) since then has changed its clinical meaning for a surface electrocardiographic waveform from benign to malignant. The new definition of ERP/ERV contains only J wave but ST-segment elevation is no more obligatory. In the old definition, early repolarization pattern (ERP) or early repolarization variant (ERV) 3 is a well-recognized idiopathic electrocardiographic phenomenon considered to be present when at least two adjacent precordial leads show elevation of the ST segment, with values equal or higher than 1 mm. In the new electrocardiographic ERP concept, the ST segment may or may not be elevated and can be up-sloping, horizontal or down-sloping while in the old ERP/ERV concept it must be elevated at least 1 mm in at least two adjacent leads and the variant is characterized by a diffuse elevation of the ST segment of upper concavity, ending in a positive T wave of V2 to V4 or V5 and prominent J wave and ST-segment elevation predominantly in left precordial leads. The phenomenon constitutes a normal variant; it is almost a rule in athletes (present in 89% of the cases in this universe). |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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