QT dispersion: time for an obituary?

QT dispersion: time for an obituary?

Perhaps the believers and disbelievers represent two different poles of scientific and research attitude. Some believe that the original concept of QT dispersion is correct merely because the technology can be applied to existing ECGs, and that the results more or less frequently (irrespective of the reproducibility) statistically distinguish between clinically defined groups. Others point to t...

The impact of chronic hemodialysis on QT dispersion corrected QTdispersion and maximum QT-dispersion

Introduction: Sudden cardiac death is common in patients on hemodialysis and may occur in the immediate postdialysis period when ventricular premature complexes are common. QT dispersion reflecting hetovogelity in ventricle repolarization has been used for predicting patients with risk of malignant arrhythmia and sudden death. The purpose of the study was to assess the effect of hemodialysis on...

Measurement of QT dispersion.

Trastuzumab and QT dispersion.

The article entitled "The acute effect of trastuzumab infusion on ECG parameters in metastatic breast cancer patients" written by Yavas et al. and published in one of the 2007 issues of your journal was quite interesting [1]. We consider that this article is important and interesting as it studies the adverse effects profile of targeted molecules. Therefore, we also wanted to emphasise some poi...

QT Dispersion after Thrombolytic Therapy

BACKGROUND QT dispersion (QTd) is equal to longer QTc minus shorter QTc measured by 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG). QTd reflects inhomogeneity in repolarization of ventricular myocardium and because of easy and fast measurement of QTd, it can be used to predict high-risk patients for dysrhythmia after Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI). OBJECTIVES This study aimed to assess the effect of thro...