Electrophysiological mechanism of the characteristic electrocardiographic morphology of torsade de pointes tachyarrhythmias in the long-QT syndrome: detailed analysis of ventricular tridimensional activation patterns

Circulation
N El-SherifM Restivo

Abstract

The long-QT syndrome (LQTS) is an electrophysiological (EP) entity characterized by prolongation of cardiac repolarization and the occurrence of polymorphic ventricular tachyarrhythmias (VTs), sometimes with a twisting QRS morphology, better known as torsade de pointes (TdP). In the present study, detailed analysis of ventricular tridimensional activation patterns during nonsustained TdP VT was performed to provide an EP mechanism of the periodic transition in QRS axis. The studies were conducted with the anthopleurin-A canine model of LQTS. Tridimensional isochronal maps of ventricular activation were constructed from 256 bipolar electrograms obtained from the use of 64 plunge needle electrodes. In 26 episodes of nonsustained TdP VT, detailed activation maps could be accurately constructed during QRS-axis transitions in surface ECGs. The initial beat of all VTs consistently arose as a subendocardial focal activity, whereas subsequent beats were due to reentrant excitation in the form of rotating scrolls. The VT ended when reentrant excitation was terminated. In 22 of 26 episodes, the transition in QRS axis coincided with the transient bifurcation of a predominantly single rotating scroll into two simultaneous scrolls involving...Continue Reading

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