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Does continuous beat-to-beat ECG measurement improve the predictive power to discriminate single vs. multichannel block compared to traditional 10-second signal averaged triplicates in healthy volunteers?
Does continuous beat-to-beat ECG measurement improve the predictive power to discriminate single vs. multichannel block compared to traditional 10-second signal averaged triplicates in healthy volunteers?
Continuous beat-to-beat ECG measurements over 24 hours significantly improve the predictive power to discriminate pure hERG block from multichannel block compared to traditional 10-second resting ECGs.
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May refine drug block discrimination with denser beat-to-beat metrics; leaves open adoption in clinical ECG protocols pending validation.
Since introduction of the International Conference on Harmonization proarrhythmia guidelines in 2005, no new marketed drugs have been associated with unacceptable risk of Torsade de Pointes. Although cardiac safety improved, these guidelines had the unintended consequence of eliminating potentially beneficial drugs from pipelines early in development. More recently, it has been shown that a corrected QT (QTc) prolonging drug may be safe if it impacts multiple ion channels vs. only human ether-a-go-go related gene (hERG) and that this effect can be discriminated using QT subintervals. We compared the predictive power of four electrocardiogram (ECG) repolarization metrics to discriminate single vs. multichannel block: (i) traditional 10-second signal averaged triplicates, and (ii) three metrics that used increasing density of automatically measured beat-to-beat (btb) intervals. Predictive power was evaluated using logistic regression and quantified with receiver operating characteristic (ROC) area under the curve (AUC). Compared with the traditional 10-second signal averaged triplicates, the reduction in classification error ranged from 2-6 with increasing density of btb measurements.
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