A NUMBER of reports on normal ranges of corrected orthogonal electrocardiographic measurements have appeared in the literature.'-12 They were derived, however, from limited numbers of subjects and the types of electrocardiographic and vectorcardiographic measurements varied largely from one study to another. The reported results are therefore not always strictly comparable. In spite of these li...

OBJECTIVE To determine the validity of electrocardiographic QT interval in predicting left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in patients with suspected heart failure using echocardiogram as the gold standard. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional validation study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY AFIC-NIHD, Rawalpindi, from December 2012 to June 2013. METHODOLOGY Patients with suspected heart failure u...

We describe the electrocardiographic changes during everyday activities recorded by ambulatory electrocardiographic monitoring in 67 patients with neurocirculatory asthenia. The findings were compared with the results of ambulatory monitoring in 33 healthy controls. We observed episodes of sinus tachycardia > 120/min unrelated to effort in 60 of the patients, 35 had frequent episodes of pronoun...

Background. The Electrophysiologic Study Versus Electrocardiographic Monitoring (ESVEM) study was designed to compare the accuracy of predictions of antiarrhythmic drug efficacy made by electrophysiological study (EPS) with those made by Holter monitoring (HM) combined with exercise testing. The present study describes the baseline characteristics and the response to drug efficacy tests of 486 ...

Cross sectional echocardiography, 12 lead electrocardiography, and 24 hour ambulatory electrocardiography were performed in eleven patients with tuberous sclerosis. Echocardiography showed single or multiple intramyocardial masses, most commonly in the ventricular septum, suggestive of rhabdomyomata in seven of the eleven cases. One patient with a normal echocardiogram showed ventricular pre-ex...

Electrical activity at the level of the heart muscle can be noninvasively reconstructed from body-surface electrocardiograms (ECGs) and patient-specific torso-heart geometry. This modality, coined electrocardiographic imaging, could fill the gap between the noninvasive (low-resolution) 12-lead ECG and invasive (high-resolution) electrophysiology studies. Much progress has been made to establish...

We prospectively studied serial electrocardiograms in 61 patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. Electrocardiographic changes were related to the initial level of consciousness, to subsequent events, and to outcome after 3 months. All 61 patients had at least one abnormal electrocardiogram, but cardiac disease did not contribute directly to morbidity or mortality. Fast rhythm disturba...

T he study by Ritchie et al 1 in this issue of Circulation uses electronic health record data and DNA biobanks to identify several genomic variants previously implicated 2,3 in the variation of ECG parameters of cardiac conduction and diseases of cardiac conduction. So why is this study worthy of note? Article see p 1377 Ever since Enthoven first named the QRS complex, 4 investigators have soug...