Ibutilide-induced alterations in electrocardiographic and spatial vectorcardiographic descriptors of ventricular repolarization

Clinical Cardiology
Polychronis DilaverisChristodoulos Stefanadis

Abstract

Ibutilide is used for the pharmacologic cardioversion of atrial fibrillation (AF) or flutter (AFl). Ibutilide-induced QT interval prolongation has been demonstrated previously. However, its effects on vectorcardiographic (VCG) descriptors of ventricular repolarization (VR) have not been studied so far. To evaluate the effects of ibutilide on electrocardiographic (ECG) and VCG descriptors of VR, one or two repeated 10-min infusions of 1 mg of ibutilide were given in 50 consecutively recruited patients (36 women, mean age 69.4 +/- 9.3 years) with AF or AFl of recent onset. The maximum and the minimum QT intervals, QT dispersion, the rate-corrected QT maximum, and the spatial VCG descriptors, spatial T amplitude, and spatial QRS-T angle were calculated before (baseline ECG) and 30 min after the start of ibutilide infusion (postinfusion ECG). After ibutilide infusion, 40 (80%) patients were cardioverted to sinus rhythm (Group 1), while in the remaining 10 (Group 2) AF or AFl persisted. In both study groups, temporal measures of VR were significantly increased from baseline to the postinfusion ECG. In Group 1, spatial T amplitude and spatial QRS-T angle did not differ between those two ECGs, while in Group 2 spatial T amplitude was ...Continue Reading

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Jul 21, 2005·Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology : the Official Journal of the International Society for Holter and Noninvasive Electrocardiology, Inc·Polychronis DilaverisChristodoulos Stefanadis

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