Detection of atrial-flutter and atrial-fibrillation waveforms by fetal magnetocardiogram

Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing - Tập 40 - Trang 213-217 - 2002
A. Kandori1, T. Hosono2, T. Kanagawa2, S. Miyashita2, Y. Chiba2, M. Murakami3, T. Miyashita1, K. Tsukada1
1Hitachi, Ltd, Central Research Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan
2Division of Perinatology, National Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan
3Hitachi, Ltd., Ibaraki (Japan)

Tóm tắt

Two cases of fetal tachycardia are reported: atrial flutter and fibrillation. The waveforms from each case were detected by fetal magnetocardiograms (FMCGs) using a 64-channel superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) system. Because the magnitude of supraventricular arrhythmia signals is very weak, two subtraction methods were used to detect the fetal MCG waveforms: subtraction of the maternal MCG signal, and subtraction of the fetal QRS complex signal. It was found that atrial-flutter waveforms showed a cyclic pattern and that atrial-fibrillation waveforms showed f-waves with a random atrial rhythm. Fast Fourier transform analysis determined the main frequency of the atrial flutter to be about 7 Hz, and the frequency distribution of atrial fibrillation consisted of small, broad peaks. To visualise the current pattern, current-arrow maps, which simplify the observation of pseudo-current patterns in fetal hearts, of the averaged atrial flutter and fibrillation waveforms were produced. The map of the atrial flutter had a circular pattern, indicating a re-entry circuit, and the map of the atrial fibrillation indicated one wavelet, which was produced by a micro-re-entry circuit. It is thus concluded that an FMCG can detect supraventricular arrhythmia, which can be characterised by re-entry circuits, in fetuses.

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