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. 2022 Jul;33(7):1494-1504.
doi: 10.1111/jce.15487. Epub 2022 Apr 24.

Influence of respiration and tissue contact on ventricular substrate identification during high density mapping: Results from an ovine infarct model

Timothy Campbell  1   2 , Richard G Bennett  1   2 , Robert D Anderson  1   2   3   4 , Samual Turnbull  1   2 , Saurabh Kumar  1   2
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Influence of respiration and tissue contact on ventricular substrate identification during high density mapping: Results from an ovine infarct model

Timothy Campbell et al. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2022 Jul.

Abstract

Introduction: Multielectrode mapping (MEM) and automated point collection are important enhancements to substrate mapping in ventricular tachycardia ablation. The effects of tissue contact and respiration on electrogram voltage with differing depolarization wavefronts with MEM catheters are unclear.

Methods: Bipolar and unipolar voltages were collected from control (n = 5) and infarcted (n = 7) animals with a multispline MEM catheter. Electro-anatomic maps were created in sinus rhythm, and right and left ventricular pacing. Analysis was performed across three collections: standard settings (SS), respiratory-phase gating (RG), and electrode-tissue proximity (TP). Comparison was made to scar detected by cardiac MRI (cMRI).

Results: Compared to SS and RG acquisition, median bipolar and unipolar voltages were higher using TP, regardless of the depolarization wavefront. In infarct animals, bipolar voltages were 30.7%-50.5% higher for bipolar and 8.7%-13.8% higher on unipolar voltages with TP, compared to SS. The effect of RG on bipolar and unipolar voltages was minimal. Percentage of local abnormal ventricular activities was not impacted by acquisition settings or wavefront direction in infarct animals. Compared with cMRI defined scar, all three acquisition settings overestimated scar area using standard voltage-based cutoffs. RG improved the low voltage area concordance with MRI by 1.6%-5.1% whereas TP improved by 5.9%-8.4%.

Conclusions: High density voltage mapping with a MEM catheter is influenced by point collection settings. Tissue contact filters reduced low voltage areas and improved agreement with cMRI fibrosis in infarcted ovine hearts. These findings have critical implications for optimizing filter settings for high density substrate mapping in the left ventricle.

Keywords: electroanatomic mapping; multielectrode mapping; myocardial scar; ventricular substrate; ventricular tachycardia.

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