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Heart 88:266-270 doi:10.1136/heart.88.3.266
  • Congenital heart disease

ECG determinants in adult patients with chronic right ventricular pressure overload caused by congenital heart disease: relation with plasma neurohormones and MRI parameters

Table 2

Quantitative parameters in the patient groups

Subpulmonary pressure overloaded RV
Parameter Reference value ccTGA TGA Total TOF Other*
Values are mean (SD).
BNP, brain natriuretic peptide; EDV, end diastolic volume.
*Nine patients with residual pulmonary valve stenosis, four with peripheral pulmonary stenosis, and one with primary pulmonary hypertension;
†Lentner C, Geigy Scientific Tables, 5: Heart and Circulation. Basel: Ciba-Geigy; 1990:63–6, 148–67. ‡Data from reference 10.
QRS duration (s) <0.100† 0.116 (0.033) 0.103 (0.04) 0.139 (0.036) 0.162 (0.019) 0.117 (0.036)
QRS dispersion (s) 0.023 (0.005)† 0.047 (0.02) 0.038 (0.016) 0.043 (0.018) 0.052 (0.019) 0.034 (0.012)
Change in QRS duration (s) 0 0.017 (0.015) 0.006 (0.013) 0.005 (0.009) 0.006 (0.010) 0.005 (0.009)
Change in QRS dispersion (s) 0 0.007 (0.024) 0.013 (0.014) 0.015 (0.018) 0.018 (0.018) 0.015 (0.013)
RVEDV (ml) 141 (51) 127 (33) 164 (75) 205 (84) 126 (39)
RV mass (g) 23–68† 139 (44) 152 (38) 83 (35) 83 (33) 82 (38)
BNP (pmol/l) 2.3‡ 8.96 (6.87) 5.94 (4.03) 6.09 (5.41) 7.41 (4.34) 4.51 (6.34)

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