The influence of infectious disease on ventricular evoked responses from heart transplants

Author

Schreier, G. ; Kastner, P. ; Hutten, H. ; Schaldach, M. ; Grasser, B. ; Schaffellner, S. ; Prenner, G. ; Iberer, F. ; Tscheliessnigg, K.H.

Author_Institution

Inst. fur Elektro- und Biomed. Tech., Tech. Univ. Graz, Austria

Volume

1

fYear

1997

fDate

30 Oct-2 Nov 1997

Firstpage

169

Abstract

Telemetric recording and subsequent analysis of intramyocardial electrograms offer a noninvasive method for patient monitoring after heart transplantation. Decreasing electrical activity indicates both episodes of rejection and infection. Analysis of the duration of the ventricular evoked response recorded during pacing reveals a significant increase of this parameter only during infection. In many cases, this additional information can be used to differentiate between the two pathological effects and to enhance the specificity of the method

Keywords

cardiology; diseases; electrocardiography; patient monitoring; surgery; heart infection; heart rejection; heart transplants; infectious disease; intramyocardial electrograms; method specificity enhancement; noninvasive method; pathological effects; ventricular evoked responses; Biopsy; Cardiac disease; Cardiovascular diseases; Data acquisition; Data analysis; Data mining; Heart; Pacemakers; Statistical analysis; Telemetry;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1997. Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4262-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1997.754494

Filename

754494