PMID- 30947511 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20200107 LR - 20200107 IS - 1941-3084 (Electronic) IS - 1941-3084 (Linking) VI - 12 IP - 4 DP - 2019 Apr TI - Simultaneous Comparison of Electrocardiographic Imaging and Epicardial Contact Mapping in Structural Heart Disease. PG - e007120 LID - 10.1161/CIRCEP.118.007120 [doi] AB - BACKGROUND: The accuracy of ECG imaging (ECGI) in structural heart disease remains uncertain. This study aimed to provide a detailed comparison of ECGI and contact-mapping system (CARTO) electrograms. METHODS: Simultaneous epicardial mapping using CARTO (Biosense-Webster, CA) and ECGI (CardioInsight) in 8 patients was performed to compare electrogram morphology, activation time (AT), and repolarization time (RT). Agreement between AT and RT from CARTO and ECGI was assessed using Pearson correlation coefficient, rho (AT) and rho (RT), root mean square error, E (AT) and E (RT), and Bland-Altman plots. RESULTS: After geometric coregistration, 711 (439-905; median, first-third quartiles) ECGI and CARTO points were paired per patient. AT maps showed rho (AT)=0.66 (0.53-0.73) and E (AT)=24 (21-32) ms, RT maps showed rho (RT)=0.55 (0.41-0.71) and E (RT)=51 (38-70) ms. The median correlation coefficient measuring the morphological similarity between the unipolar electrograms was equal to 0.71 (0.65-0.74) for the entire signal, 0.67 (0.59-0.76) for QRS complexes, and 0.57 (0.35-0.76) for T waves. Local activation map correlation, rho (AT), was lower when default filters were used (0.60 (0.30-0.71), P=0.053). Small misalignment of the ECGI and CARTO geometries (below +/-4 mm and +/-4 degrees ) could introduce variations in the median rho (AT) up to +/-25%. Minimum distance between epicardial pacing sites and the region of earliest activation in ECGI was 13.2 (0.0-28.3) mm from 25 pacing sites with stimulation to QRS interval <40 ms. 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LA - eng GR - PG/16/81/32441/BHF_/British Heart Foundation/United Kingdom GR - DH_/Department of Health/United Kingdom PT - Comparative Study PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - United States TA - Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol JT - Circulation. Arrhythmia and electrophysiology JID - 101474365 SB - IM MH - Catheter Ablation MH - *Electrocardiography MH - *Epicardial Mapping MH - Female MH - Humans MH - Male MH - Middle Aged MH - Tachycardia, Ventricular/*physiopathology/surgery OTO - NOTNLM OT - ECG imaging OT - activation and repolarization maps OT - contact mapping OT - unipolar electrograms OT - ventricular tachycardia EDAT- 2019/04/06 06:00 MHDA- 2020/01/08 06:00 CRDT- 2019/04/06 06:00 PHST- 2019/04/06 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2019/04/06 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2020/01/08 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1161/CIRCEP.118.007120 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol. 2019 Apr;12(4):e007120. doi: 10.1161/CIRCEP.118.007120.