Title Risk stratifiers for arrhythmic and non-arrhythmic mortality after acute myocardial infarction.
Author Ganan-Calvo, Alfonso M; Hnatkova, Katerina; Romero-Calvo, Alvaro; Fajardo-Lopez, Juan; Malik, Marek
Journal Sci Rep Publication Year/Month 2018-Jul
PMID 29967325 PMCID PMC6028459
Affiliation + expend 1.Universidad de Sevilla, Depto. de Ingenieria Aeroespacial y Mecanica de Fluidos, Sevilla, E-41092, Spain. amgc@us.es.

The effective discrimination between patients at risk of Arrhythmic Mortality (AM) and Non-Arrhythmic Mortality (NAM) constitutes one of the important unmet clinical needs. Successful risk assessment based on Electrocardiography (ECG) records is greatly improved by the combination of different indices reflecting not only the pathological substrate but also the autonomic regulation of cardiac electrophysiology. This study assesses the cardiac risk stratification capacity of two new Heart Rate Variability (HRV) parameters, Breath Concurrence 6 (BC6) -sinusoidal RR variability of 6 heart beats per breath cycle- and Primary Ectopia (PE) -presence of early ventricular contractions of any etiology- together with the Deceleration Capacity (DC). While BC6 characterizes the response to physiological and pathophysiological stimuli, PE qualifies autonomic cardiac electrophysiology. The analysis of the European Myocardial Infarct Amiodarone Trial (EMIAT) database indicates that BC6 is related with the risk of Arrhythmic Mortality (AM) and PE with the risk of Non-Arrhythmic Mortality. BC6 is the only single parameter that significantly discriminates between AM and NAM. While the combination of BC6 and DC contributes to the identification of AM risk, PE together with DC improves the prediction of NAM in patients with severe ischemic heart disease.

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