• J. Cardiovasc. Electrophysiol. · Dec 2007

    Impaired T-amplitude adaptation to heart rate characterizes I(Kr) inhibition in the congenital and acquired forms of the long QT syndrome.

    • Jean-Philippe Couderc, Martino Vaglio, Xiajuan Xia, Scott McNitt, Pierre Wicker, Nenad Sarapa, Arthur J Moss, and Wojciech Zareba.
    • Heart Research Follow-Up Program, Cardiology Department, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, USA. jean-philippe.couderc@heart.rochester.edu
    • J. Cardiovasc. Electrophysiol. 2007 Dec 1; 18 (12): 1299-305.

    IntroductionThe QTc interval prolongation is not a perfect surrogate marker of the presence of an increased risk for arrhythmic events. In the search for alternative markers, we investigated the T-amplitude and QT interval adaptation to heart rate (HR) in patients with the congenital long QT syndrome (LQTS) and individuals with sotalol-induced QT prolongation.Methods And ResultsOur investigation is based on the analysis of continuous 12-lead digital Holter recordings in: 49 LQT1 carriers, 25 LQT2 carriers, 37 healthy individuals off drugs and on 160 mg of sotalol, and 21 of them also on 320 mg of sotalol. The Holter recordings were used to investigate repolarization parameters and their HR dependency. A loss of HR dependency of the T-amplitude was found as a common feature in individuals with impaired I(kr) kinetics: LQT2 carriers and subjects on sotalol. The T-amplitude/RR slope was significantly (P < 0.05) flatter in LQT2 (0.31 +/- 0.27 microV/ms) than in both LQT1 (0.62 +/- 0.40 microV/ms) and healthy individuals (0.55 +/- 0.29 microV/ms). A dose-dependent reduction of the T-amplitude/RR slope was also observed in subjects on sotalol (160 mg dose: 0.26 +/- 0.19 microV/ms; 320 mg dose: 0.21 +/- 0.14 microV/ms). The QT/RR slope was less effective than T-amplitude/RR slope in differentiating between congenital and drug-induced repolarization delay.ConclusionsImpaired adaptation of T-amplitude to changing HR is a common electrocardiographic feature associated with KCNH2 mutation and I(kr) blockade by sotalol. This ECG marker may play an important role in the future of the assessment of the penetrance of KCNH2 mutation and the identification of a drug effect on the I(kr) kinetics.

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