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CLINICAL STUDIES

Ventricular excitation maps using tissue Doppler acceleration imaging: potential clinical application

Li-Xue Yin, MD^* , Chuen-Mei Li, MD^* , QinGue Fu, MD^* , Yiu Lo, MB , QiHua Huang, MB , Li Cai, MD and Zhu-Xui Zheng, MD

^* Echocardiography Laboratory, Sichuan Provincial Hospital, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Cardiac Catheter Laboratory, Sichuan Provincial Hospital, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Sichuan Red Cross Hospital, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Manuscript received June 8, 1998; revised manuscript received August 24, 1998, accepted November 5, 1998.

Reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. Li-Xue Yin, Echocardiography Laboratory, Sichuan Provincial Hospital, Chengdu, Sichuan 610072, P.R. China

OBJECTIVES

The purpose of this study is to validate the use of tissue Doppler acceleration imaging (TDAI) for evaluation of the onset of ventricular contraction in humans.

BACKGROUND

Tissue Doppler acceleration imaging can display the distribution, direction and value of ventricular acceleration responses to myocardial contraction and electrical excitation.

METHODS

Twenty normal volunteers underwent TDAI testing to determine the normal onset of ventricular acceleration. Two patients with paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia and 30 patients with permanent pacemakers underwent introduction of esophageal and right ventricular pacing electrodes, respectively, and were studied to visualize the onset of pacer-induced ventricular acceleration. Eight patients with dual atrioventricular (AV) node and 20 patients with Wolff–Parkinson–White (WPW) syndrome underwent TDAI testing to localize the abnormal onset of ventricular acceleration, and the results were compared with those of intracardiac electrophysiology (ICEP) tests.

RESULTS

The normal onset and the onset of dual AV node were localized at the upper interventricular septum (IVS) under the right coronary cusp within 15 ms before the beginning of the R wave in the electrocardiogram (ECG). In all patients in the pacing group, the location and timing of the onset conformed to the positions and timing of electrodes (100%). In patients with WPW syndrome, abnormal onset was localized to portions of the ventricular wall other than the upper IVS at the delta wave or within 15 ms after the delta wave in the ECG. The agreement was 90% (18 of 20) between the abnormal onset and the position of the accessory pathways determined by ICEP testing.

CONCLUSIONS

These results suggest that TDAI is a useful noninvasive method that frequently is successful in visualizing the intramural site of origin of ventricular mechanical contraction.

Abbreviations and Acronyms   AV = atrioventricular   ECG = electrocardiographic/electrocardiography/ electrocardiogram   ICEP = intracardiac electrophysiology   IVS = interventricular septum   PSVT = paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia   RCC = right coronary cusp   TDAI = tissue Doppler acceleration imaging   2D = two-dimensional   WPW = Wolff–Parkinson–White

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