Electrical Alternans

Selected Bibliography

PUBLISHED PAPERS

Lewis T: Notes Upon Alternation of the Heart. Quart J. Med 1910;4:141-145.

Schwartz PJ, Malliani A: Electrical Alternation of the T wave: Clinical and Experimental Evidence of its Relationship with the Sympathetic Nervous System and with the Long Q-T Syndrome. Am Heart J 1975;89:45-50.

Kleinfeld MJ, Rozanski JJ: Alternans of the ST Segment in Prinzmetal's Angina. Circulation 1977;55:574-577.

Puletti M, Curione M, Righetti G, et. al: Alternans of the ST Segment and T wave In Acute Myocardial Infarction. J Electrocardiol 1980;13:297-300.

Adam DR, Akselrod S, Cohen RJ: Estimation of Ventricular Vulnerability to Fibrillation through T wave Time Series Analysis. Comput Card 1981;307-310.

Rozanski JJ, Kleinfeld M: Alternans of the ST Segment and T wave. A Sign of Electrical Instability in Prinzmetal's Angina. PACE 1982;5:359-365.

Adam DR, Powell AO, Gordon H, Cohen RJ: Ventricular Fibrillation and Fluctuations in the Magnitude of the Repolarization Vector. Comput Card 1982;241-244.

Wayne VS, Bishop RL, Spodick DH: Exercise-Induced ST Segment Alternans. Chest 1983;83:824-825.

Joyal M, Feldman RL, Pepine CJ: ST Segment Alternans During Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty. Am J Cardiol 1984;54:915-916.

Adam DR, Smith JM, Akselrod S, Nyberg S, Powell AO, Cohen RJ: Fluctuations in T wave morphology and susceptibility to ventricular fibrillation. J Electrocardiol 1984;17:209-218. *

Ritzenberg A, Adam DR, Cohen RJ: Period Multupling - Evidence for Nonlinear Behavior of the Canine Heart. Nature 1984;307:159-161.

Smith JM, Cohen RJ: Simple Finite-Element Model Accounts for Wide Range of Cardiac Dysrhythmias. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1984;81-233-237.

Salerno JA, Previtali M, Panciroli C, et. al: Ventricular Arrhythmias During Acute Myocardial Ischemia in Man. The Role and Significance of R-ST-T Alternans and the Prevention of Ischemic Sudden Death by Medical Treatment. Eur Heart J 1986;7:63-75.

Ring ME, Fenster PE: Exercise-Induced ST Segment Alternans. Am Heart J 1986;111:100-1011.

Smith JM, Clancy EA, Valeri CR, Ruskin JN, Cohen RJ: Electrical Alternans and Cardiac Electrical Instability. Circulation 1988;77:110-121. *

Turitto G, El-Sherif N: Alternans of the ST Segment in Variant Angina. Chest 1988;93:587-591.

Konta T, Ikeda K, Yamaki M, et. al: Significance of Discordant ST Alternans in Ventricular Fibrillation. Circulation 1990:82:2185-2189.

Smith JM, Kaplan DT, Cohen RJ: The physics of Reentry and Fibrillation. In Zipes DP, Jalife J, eds: Cardiac Electrophysiology: From Cell to Bedside. WB Saunders Co., Philadelphia, 1990, p. 215.

Nearing BD, Huang AH, Verrier RL: Dynamic Tracking of Cardiac Vulnerability by Complex Demodulation of the T wave. Science 1991;252:437-440.

Sutton PMI, Taggart P, Lab M, et. al: Alternans of Epicardial Repolarization as a Localized Phenomenon in Man. Eur Heart J 1991;12"70-78.

Habbab MA, El-Sherif N: TU Alternans, Long QTU and Torsade de Pointes: Clinical and Experimental Observation. PACE 1992;15:916-931

Raeder EA, Rosenbaum DS, Bhasin R, Cohen RJ: Alternating Morphology of the QRST Complex Preceding Sudden Death. (Letter) N Engl J Med 1992;326:271-272.

Surawicz B, Fisch C: Cardiac Alternans: Diverse Mechanisms and Clinical Manifestations. J Am Coll Cardio 1992;20:483-499.

Rosenbaum DS, Jackson LE, Smith JM, Garan H, Ruskin JN, Cohen RJ: Electrical Alternans and Vulnerability to Ventricular Arrhythmias. N Engl J Med 1994;330:235-241.*

Verrier RL, Nearing BD: Electrophysiologic Basis for T wave Alternans as an Index of Vulnerability to Ventricular Fibrillation. Jour Card Electro 1994;5::445-461.

Mackall JA, Waldo AL, Rosenbaum DS: Electrical Alternans of the Surface Electrocardiogram: Detection Methods and Relation to Arrhythmia Vulnerability. In: Gomes JA(ed): Signal Averaged Electrocardiography. Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, 1993;561-576.

Rosenbaum DS, Bin H, Cohen RJ: New Approaches for Evaluating Cardiac Electrical Activity: Repolarization Alternans and Body Surface Laplacian Mapping. In Zipes DP, Jalife J, eds: Cardiac Electrophysiology: From Cell to Bedside. WB Saunders Co., Philadelphia, 1994.

Verrier RL, Nearing BD: T wave Alternans as a Harbinger of an Ischemic Induced Sudden Cardiac Death. In Zipes DP, Jalife J, eds: Cardiac Electrophysiology: From Cell to Bedside. WB Saunders Co., Philadelphia, 1994.

Platt SB, Vijgen JM, Albrecht P, Van Hare GF, Carlson MD, and Rosenbaum DS: Occult T Wave Alternans in Long QT Syndrome. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, Volume 7, No. 2, February 1996.

Smith JM, Blue B, Clancy E, Valeri CR, Cohen RJ: Subtle Alternating Electrocardiographic Morphology as an Indicator of Decreased Cardiac Electrical Stability. Comput Card 1985;109-113

Council on Scientific Affairs: Indications and Contradictions for Exercise Testing. JAMA, August 28, 1981, 246:9, pp. 1015-1018

El-Sherif N: T wave alternans. A marker of Vulnerability to Ventricular Tachyarrhythmias. Cardiac Arrhythmias 1995, pp 12-16.

ABSTRACTS

Rosenbaum DS, Fang X, Mackall JA: Electrical Alternans of Late Potential Amplitude: Signal or Noise. PACE 1994;17:II-779.

Mackall JA, Fang X, Rosenbaum DS: Electrical Alternans Mediated by Adrenergic Stimulation. PACE 1994;17:II-826.

Estes NA, Zipes DP, El-Sherif N, Venditti FJ, Rosenbaum DS, Albrecht P, Wang PJ, Krause PC, Cohen RJ: Electrical Alternans During Rest and Exercise as Predictors of Vulnerability to Ventricular Arrhythmias. J Am Coll Cardio Feb. 1995; Special Issue:1027-39.

Armoundas AA, Rosenbaum DS, Ruskin JN, Garan H, Cohen RJ: Electrophysiologic Testing, Electrical Alternans and Signal Averaged Electrocardiography as Predictors of Arrhythmia-Free Survival. J Am Coll Cardio Feb. 1995; Special Issue:926-26.

Vijgen JM, Julka B, Rosenbaum DS: Arrhythmogenic T wave alternans is primarily a disturbance of early repolarization. J Am Coll Cardio Feb. 1995; Special Issue:926-25.

Rosenbaum D, Fang Z, Mackall JA: How to Detect ECG T Wave Alternans in Patients at Risk for Sudden Cardiac Death. J Am Coll Cardio Feb. 1995; Special Issue:1027-40.

Estes NAM, Zipes DP, El-Sherif N, Albrecht P, Wang PJ, Marlow M, Dzurak P, Cohen RJ: The Value of T- Wave Alternans and Signal Averaged Electrocardiogram as Predictors of Arrhythmia Vulnerability. PACE 1995, Vol. 18, pg. 796.

Leeman DE, Shubrooks SJ, Librett KS, Grimshaw PE, Cohen RJ: Surface Laplacian ECG Maps Provide a Sensitive and Localizing Measure of Cardiac Ischemia. J Am Coll Cardio Feb. 1995; Special Issue:961-80.

Zareba W, Badilini F, Moss AJ: Automatic Detection of Non-Visible T wave Alternans from Three-Channel Holter Recordings. J Am Coll Cardio Feb. 1995; Special Issue:1027-41:409A

Momiyama Y, Hartikainen J, Nagayoshi H, Albrecht P, Kautzner J, McKenna WJ, Camm AJ: Exercise Induced T Wave Alternans as a Marker of High-risk Patients with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. J Am Coll Cardio Feb. 1996; Special Issue:715-4

Kautzner J, Murda'h M, Nagayoshi H, Momiyama Y, Hartikainen JEK, Albrecht P, Camm AJ, McKenna WJ, St George's Hospital Medical School, London, United Kingdom and Cambridge Heart, Inc., Bedford, MA, USA: The Potential Predictive Value of T wave Alternans for Assessment of Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. European Heart Journal 1996;17 (Abstr Suppl):508

*Note: Reprints of published papers in bold type available from Cambridge Heart upon request.