Vectorcardiography Predicts Heart Failure in Patients Following ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Modeling outcomes, such as onset of heart failure (HF) or mortality, in patients following ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is challenging but clinically very useful. The acute insult following a myocardial infarction and chronic degeneration seen in HF involve a similar process where a loss of cardiomyocytes and abnormal remodeling lead to pump failure. This process may alter the strength and direction of the heart's net depolarization signal. We hypothesize that changes over time in unique parameters extracted using vectorcardiography (VCG) have the potential to predict outcomes in patients post-STEMI and could eventually be used as a noninvasive and cost-effective surveillance tool for characterizing the severity and progression of HF to guide evidence-based

SUBMITTER: Perkins SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11424495 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature