Vnitr Lek 1996, 42(10):684-692
[Long-term electrocardiographic monitoring of patients after acute myocardial infarct].
- I. interná klinika FN, Bratislava.
The authors present an account on detailed electrocardiographic follow-up of a patient for 12 months after an inferior myocardial infarction. The patient died 14 months after the IM due to arrhythmia after previous remodelling of the left ventricle. The results assembled by means of superstandard methods of signal averaging electrocardiography (method of cumulative amplitudes, RMS signal and frequency analysis) and electrocardiographie body surface mapping (isointegral maps) are confronted with detailed clinical examinations and repeated echocardiographic investigations. The assembled results indicate that the applied superstandard methods make it possible to extract electrocardiographic parameters (presence of pathological high frequency peaks, raised values of partial cumulative amplitudes at the end of the QRS complex at higher frequencies, negative correlation coefficients from comparisons of integral maps with controls) which are a signal that the patient's life is threatened.
Keywords: Aged; Arrhythmias, Cardiac /diagnosis/; Body Surface Potential Mapping; Echocardiography; Electrocardiography; Humans; Male; Monitoring, Physiologic; Myocardial Infarction /complications/; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted
Published: October 1, 1996 Show citation