Diretrizes da Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia sobre Análise e Emissão de Laudos Eletrocardiográficos (2009) / Guidelines of Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia about analysis and issuance of expert opinion in electrocardiographic (2009)

Realizado pelo Grupo de Estudos de Eletrocardiografia da Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia, este novo trabalho atualiza a primeira diretriz do eletrocardiograma de repouso, de 2003, com o resultado da reunião de especialistas de todo o Brasil em Pouso Alegre (MG), em novembro de 2008. Visando agregar mais conhecimento a esta centenária e fiel ferramenta, sempre presente nos consultórios dos clínicos e cardiologistas do Brasil e do mundo, são trazidas para esta versão as muitas novidades surgidas desde então. O descobrimento da eletrofisiologia, facilitando o diagnóstico das arritmias mais sofisticadas, o estudo pormenorizado das funções dos canais iônicos e suas repercussões na repolarização ventricular e, finalmente, o papel do ECG na prevenção da morte súbita cardíaca, foram alguns dos ganhos obtidos nestes últimos anos, além da transmissão dos exames eletrocardiológicos (ECG, holter, ergometria) através da internet, que possibilitou a difusão dos exames por todo o país.

Valor do teste de esforço computadorizado no diagnóstico diferencial entre fenômenos isquêmicos de origem obstrutiva e näo-obstrutiva / Value of Computadorized Exercise Stress Test in the Differentiation Among Ischemic Phenomena of Obstructive and Non-obstructive Origin

PURPOSE--To describe groups of patients who have obstructive and non-obstructive coronary artery disease, through computadorized exercise stress test. METHODS--The test was done in 121 patients, all male, divided into 3 groups: GN group, 50 patients with normal electrocardiographic response to exercise; GLO group, 40 patients with obstructive coronary artery disease and GNO group, 31 patients with normal coronary arteries, showing one or more of the following entities: intramural coronary traject, coronary tortuosity, slow flow, mitral valve prolapse or left ventricular hypertrophy. GLO and GNO groups presented with abnormal response of the ST segment during exercise. The quantitative variables registered by computer were particularly analyzed as follows: STL (point Y depression), slope, index and ST segment integral. The magnitude of ST vector was visually measured and quantified. The statistic study was made through ANOVA and multiples comparison by the Scheffe's method, Fisher's test, quisquare and sensibility, specificity and accuracy calculation. RESULTS--There was a significant statistic difference among the 3 groups relative to slope and index (p < 0.05). The integral variable of ST segment did not allow us to differentiate the GLO and GNO groups. In the association study between the ST vector magnitude and abnormal T loop, there was an increase in sensibility of 15//in the exercise stress test. CONCLUSION--The ST segment slope below zero values, define patients having obstructive disease, and the opposite, non-obstructive disease. Values of ST segment index lower than -2 are linked to obstructive disease and higher than -2 linked to non-obstructive. Values of ST segment lower than -7 microV. s separate individuals with normal exercise stress test from those with ischemic type response. The magnitude of ST vector equal to or lower than 0.20mV define normal vectorcardiographic response to the exercise