Atrial electromechanical delay and p wave dispersion associated with severity of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Çağlar Alp; Nesligül Yildirim; Yunus Çelik; Mehmet Tolga Dogru; Vahit Demir; Ömer Şahin
- Source
- African Health Sciences
- Subject
- P wave dispersion
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Pulmonary disease
Severe copd
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Electrocardiography
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
Atrial eletromechanical delay
Heart Rate
Internal medicine
Healthy control
Atrial Fibrillation
medicine
Humans
In patient
Heart Atria
COPD
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
P wave
General Medicine
Articles
medicine.disease
Cross-Sectional Studies
Echocardiography
Case-Control Studies
Cardiology
business
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1729-0503
1680-6905
Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate atrial electromechanical delay (AEMD) with both electrocardiography (ECG) and echocardiography in patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Methods: Total of 110 patients were included in this cross-sectional case-control study. P-wave dispersion (PWD) was measured on a 12-lead ECG. Atrial electromechanical intervals (PA) were measured as the time interval between the onset of the P wave on the ECG and the beginning of the late diastolic A wave. Results: PWD was found to be 40.9±9.2 ms in the healthy control group, 45.6±8.2 ms in the mild COPD and 44.8±8.7 ms in the severe COPD group (p