Source:http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/id/8449192
General Info
Affiliation
Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Technical Physics, Espoo, Finland.Abstract
This study was performed to evaluate the accuracy of magnetocardiography in non-invasive localization of the ventricular pre-excitation site in patients suffering from the Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome. Twelve WPW patients were studied, in whom the pre-excitation caused serious supraventricular arrhythmias refractory to drug therapy. Magnetocardiographic measurements were performed in a magnetically shielded room, and non-invasive localization was computed from preprocessed magnetic signals using a current dipole source in a realistically shaped digital torso. All patients underwent intra-operative multicatheter mapping and subsequent dissection of the accessory atrioventricular connection. The intra-operative localization results were marked on magnetic resonance images of the heart, where magnetocardiographic results were also superimposed to allow comparison. The average of the three-dimensional differences between the magnetocardiographic and the invasive results was 2.1 +/- 0.9 cm. In all cases, the computed localization result was in the same or adjacent anatomical region as the intra-operative result. The present results show that the magnetocardiographic method using a realistic torso model is capable of localizing pre-excitation sites with sufficient accuracy to provide extra information so that non-pharmacological therapeutic interventions can be applied.
PMID
8449192
Publication types
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't