| Autor: |
Hacı Ahmet Kasapkara, Ayşegül Şentürk, Emine Bilen, Hüseyin Ayhan, Bilge Duran Karaduman, Zeynep Şeyma Turinay, Murat Can Güney, Tahir Durmaz, Telat Keleş, Engin Bozkurt |
| Jazyk: |
English<br />Portuguese |
| Rok vydání: |
2017 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia, Vol 36, Iss 12, Pp 919-924 (2017) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
0870-2551 |
| DOI: |
10.1016/j.repc.2017.05.011 |
| Popis: |
Introduction and Aim: Sarcoidosis increases inhomogeneity in ventricular repolarization due to the presence of sarcoid granuloma, which significantly correlates with ventricular fibrillation. Various studies have suggested that the interval from the peak to the end of the electrocardiographic T wave (T-peak to T-end [Tpe] interval) may correspond to the transmural dispersion of repolarization and that increased Tpe interval and Tpe/QT ratio are associated with malignant ventricular arrhythmias. The present study hypothesized that QT and Tpe intervals are significantly prolonged in sarcoidosis patients without apparent cardiac involvement. Methods: The study population consisted of 54 patients (37 female; mean age 43.4±10.6 years) under follow-up for sarcoidosis and 56 healthy subjects (37 female; mean age 42.4±8.6 years). Results: There was no statistically significant difference between the groups in maximum QT interval, QT dispersion or corrected QT (QTc) interval, but QTc dispersion and Tpe interval were significantly prolonged in the sarcoidosis group compared to the control group (QTc dispersion 59.9±22.5 and 44.4±23.8, respectively, p=0.001; Tpe interval 79.4±9.3 and 70.7±7.03, respectively, p |
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