Columbia University
Atrial and ventricular cardiac arrhythmias are serious public health problems in the United States, affecting over 5% of Americans and are major causes of stroke and heart failure leading to increased morbidity and mortality. This proposed clinical trial will determine how electromechanical wave imaging (EWI), a non-invasive ultrasound precision imaging modality, can effectively diagnose and determine the mechanism of the arrhythmia and impact personalized treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. Participants who are already scheduled for electrophysiology study will receive EWI prior to their study. Half of participants will randomly have their EWI imaging data available for their electrophysiologist to analyze and potentially affect procedure planning and execution. Across all participants the results of EWI and the electrophysiology study will be compared to determine EWI accuracy at diagnosing arrhythmias. Participants whose electrophysiologists had access to EWI data will be compared against those without access to determine if EWI data led to improved procedure efficiency and outcomes.
Cardiac arrhythmias are a major cause of morbidity and mortality affecting over 5% of Americans. Arrhythmias have become increasingly prevalent due to an aging population with diabetes, heart failure and hypertension, which has led to an increasing number of invasive electrophysiology studies and catheter ablations. Understanding of the cardiac arrhythmia mechanism, if it is focal or reentrant, and the specific location of the arrhythmia origin is limited by the current first-line, standard of care, noninvasive diagnostic test - the 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG), which is dependent on physic…
Inclusion Criteria: * \>=18 years of age * Able to give consent for the study * Scheduled for Invasive Electrophysiology Study (EPS) +/- ablation for atrial tachycardia (AT), atrial flutter (AFL), Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome (WPW) or premature atrial complexes/premature ventricular complexes (PAC/PVCs) Exclusion Criteria: * Patient is not in clinical arrhythmia at the time of scan despite leg lifts, or intravenous isoproterenol/dobutamine infusion * Patient is not able to comply with study protocol due to cognitive impairment, severe mental illness, or planned moved during the study peri…
EWI is a high-frame rate ultrasound technique that images the electromechanical wave corresponding to the propagation of the onset of myocardial contraction in response to electrical activation, namely electromechanical coupling.
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