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Comparative Study
. 2008 Jan;9(1):76-80.
doi: 10.2459/JCM.0b013e3280c56d56.

Predictors of impaired heart rate variability and clinical outcome in patients with acute myocardial infarction treated by primary angioplasty

Claudio Larosa  1 , Gregory Angelo Sgueglia, Alfonso Sestito, Fabio Infusino, Giampaolo Niccoli, Priscilla Lamendola, Luca Mariani, Pasquale Santangeli, Antonella Lombardo, Filippo Crea, Gaetano Antonio Lanza
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Comparative Study

Predictors of impaired heart rate variability and clinical outcome in patients with acute myocardial infarction treated by primary angioplasty

Claudio Larosa et al. J Cardiovasc Med (Hagerstown). 2008 Jan.

Abstract

Objective: To investigate the determinants and prognostic value of heart rate variability (HRV) in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients treated by percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).

Methods: We studied 64 patients with AMI (58.4 +/- 10 years, 56 men), treated by PCI within 12 h of symptom onset. Patients underwent 24-h electrocardiographic Holter recording before discharge. HRV was measured in the time- and frequency-domain. Cardiac events were assessed at 6 months.

Results: At univariate analysis, Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) flow grade < 3 was significantly predictive of reduced frequency-domain variables. On multivariate analysis, diabetes and pre-PCI time > 6 h were the strongest predictors of depressed HRV, with peak creatine kinase myocardial-type and lower left ventricular ejection fraction being also variably correlated with impaired HRV. At 6-month follow-up, seven patients (10.1%) had cardiac events (one AMI, six revascularization procedures). A low standard deviation of RR intervals was a significant predictor of events (P = 0.009), although only age was associated with the endpoint (P = 0.05) on multivariate analysis.

Conclusions: Our study shows that, in AMI patients treated by primary PCI, a delay in coronary revascularization and AMI extension are key factors for determining depressed HRV.

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