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QT Dispersion in Patients with Takayasu Arteritis

Yoshiaki Maruyama, MD

Yuji Hashimoto, MD

Nobuo Yoshimoto, MD

Fujio Numano, MD

Toru Kato, MD

The Third Department of Internal Medicine Saitama Medical Center, Saitama, Japan 1981, Kamoda, Kawagoe Saitama, 350-8550, Japan

This study was designed to test the hypothesis that myocardial involvement exists in patients with Takayasu arteritis and is associated with increased QT dispersion, which is a marker of repolarization inhomogeneity. Twenty-one consecutive patients with Takayasu arteritis and no significant coronary artery disease were included. Twelve-lead electrocardiogram and exercise-induced thallium-201 myocardial scintigraphy were performed in all patients. Ten of 21 patients (48%) had abnormal findings on scintig raphy. Patients were divided into two groups by the presence (group P, n = 10) or absence (group N, n=11) of exercise-induced thallium-201 myocardial scintigraphic perfusion abnormalities, including permanent defects in three, reversible defects in four, and slow washout in three. The QT dispersion at rest was significantly greater in group P than that in group N (54 ±12 vs 40 ±8 msec, p < 0.005). The QTc dispersion at rest was also significantly greater in group P than in group N (59 ± 15 vs 43 ±11 msec, p<0.01). In patients with Takayasu arteritis, myocardial involvement suggested by exercise-induced thallium-201 myocardial scintigraphic perfusion abnormalities is not rare, even when no significant coronary stenosis is present on angiography. Increased baseline QT dispersion was associated with scintigraphic abnormalities and may be a useful marker of myocardial involvement in patients with Takayasu arteritis.

Angiology, Vol. 51, No. 9, 751-756 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/000331970005100907


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