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VECTORCARDIOGRAPHIC EXAMINATIONS IN DEXTROCARDIAC CHILDREN
Author(s) -
ZÁBORSKY B.,
PAAVILAINEN T. O. A.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1973.tb08090.x
Subject(s) - dextrocardia , situs inversus , medicine , vectorcardiography , qrs complex , transposition (logic) , cardiology , chord (peer to peer) , corrected transposition , great arteries , heart disease , shunt (medical) , electrocardiography , geometry , mathematics , distributed computing , computer science
Summary Fifteen cases with several forms of dextro‐cardia were examined by vectorcardiography according to the Frank system. In cases of isolated dextrocardia with concordant viscero‐atrial and atrioventricular situs, without transposition, heart disease or with small left to right shunt, the results corresponded to the ECG. The VCG differed only slightly from the mirror image of inscriptions with inverted electrode placement. In situs inversus totalis with mirror image dextrocardia and in transposition complexes, the usual VCG records were more distorted and did not correspond to the ECGs. Further investigations are necessary with the inverted electrode placement. The spatial half area QRS‐T angle appeared to be useful in estimating ventricular hypertrophy and was not influenced by the position of the heart.