Ventricular Arrhythmias in Myocarditis Characterization and Relationships With Myocardial Inflammation

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

卷:75

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Peretto, Giovanni^1,2  Sala, Simone^1,2  Rizzo, Stefania^3,4  Palmisano, Anna^2,5,6  Esposito, Antonio^2,5,6  De Cobelli, Francesco^2,5,6  Campochiaro, Corrado^2,7  De Luca, Giacomo^2,7  Foppoli, Luca^2,8  Dagna, Lorenzo^2,7  Thiene, Gaetano^3,4  Basso, Cristina^3,4  Della Bella, Paolo^1,2 

[1] IRCCS San Raffaele Hosp, Dept Cardiac Electrophysiol & Arrhythmol, Milan, Italy

[2] Univ Vita Salute San Raffaele, Via Olgettina 60, I-20132 Milan, Italy

[3] Padua Hosp, Dept Cardiovasc Pathol, Padua, Italy

[4] Univ Padua, Padua, Italy

[5] IRCCS San Raffaele Hosp, Dept Cardiovasc Radiol, Milan, Italy

[6] IRCCS San Raffaele Hosp, Cardiac Magnet Resonance Unit, Milan, Italy

[7] IRCCS San Raffaele Hosp, Unit Immunol Rheumatol Allergy & Rare Dis UnIRAR, Milan, Italy

[8] IRCCS San Raffaele Hosp, Milan, Italy

关键词: cardiac magnetic resonance;    electroanatomic mapping;    endomyocardial biopsy;    myocarditis;    ventricular arrhythmias;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.jacc.2020.01.036

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

BACKGROUND Ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) have never been systematically investigated in patients with myocarditis at different stages. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to compare baseline and follow-up characteristics of VAs in patients with active myocarditis (AM) versus previous myocarditis (PM). METHODS A total of 185 consecutive patients (69% males, age 44 +/- 15 years, left ventricular ejection fraction 49 +/- 14%) with myocarditis and VA at index hospitalization, including ventricular fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia (VT), nonsustained ventricular tachycardia (NSVT), and Lown's grade >= 2 premature ventricular complexes, were enrolled. AM and PM groups were defined based on endomyocardial biopsy and cardiac magnetic resonance findings. A subset of patients (n = 46, 25%) also underwent electroanatomic mapping and VA transcatheter ablation. RESULTS At presentation, AM patients (n = 123, 66%) more commonly had ventricular fibrillation (8 cases vs. 0 cases; p = 0.053), and both irregular (61% vs. 11%; p < 0.001) and polymorphic VA (NSVT and VT: 19% vs. 2%; p = 0.002; premature ventricular complexes: 63% vs. 16%; p < 0.001). Only in PM patients with NSVT or VT, the dominant morphology (right-bundle branch block with superior axis) was 100% predictive of abnormal LV inferoposterior substrate at both cardiac magnetic resonance and electroanatomic mapping. At 27 +/- 7 months prospective follow-up, 55 patients (30%) experienced malignant VA (AM vs. PM, p = 0.385). Although a prevalence of polymorphic and irregular VA was confirmed in AM patients with persistent inflammation in follow-up (58%), a predominance of monomorphic and regular VA was found in AM patients after myocarditis healing (42%), as well as in PM patients (all p < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS In myocarditis patients, polymorphic and irregular VA are more common during the active inflammatory phase, whereas monomorphic and regular VA are associated with healed myocarditis. (C) 2020 by the American College of Cardiology Foundation.

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