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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 Oct 16.
Published in final edited form as: Heart Rhythm. 2006 Mar;3(3):296–310. doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2005.11.025

Table 3.

Substrate characterization

Location of line of block (detected by ECGI)
Patient
No
Substrate and motion abnormalities Figure
no.
Native rhythm Biventricular pacing
1 Posterior or inferior of the heart were extensively scarred and noncontractile; anterior anteroseptal, anterolateral hypokinesis; akinesis of the basal-midinferoposterior wall, basal-midposterior wall 1C, 5A Basal lateral LV, slow conduction in anterior LV No
2 Anterior and anterolateral scarring; motion abnormalities in the inferior, posterior, lateral, anterior, septal, and apical walls N/A N/A Anterior LV
3 Akinesis with scarring of the entire inferoposterior wall; most septum was infarcted along with the inferior wall 1D, 3B No Anterolateral LV
4 Severe hypokinesis of the apical wall 4B Anterior LV Anterior RV, slow conduction in lateral LV
5 Fixed anteroseptal, apical, inferior defects; anteroseptal/apical akinesis; inferior and posterolateral severe hypokinesis 1B, 3A Anterior LV Anterior LV
6 30-year-old large inferoapical and lateral myocardial infarction; inferoposterolateral and apical akinesia 6 N/A Anterior and lateral LV
7 Scar involving the posterior inferior wall; small scar at apex; ischemia within the distal inferior wall 1A, 5B Anterior LV Anterior LV
8 Akinesis of the entire posterior wall; severe hypokinesis of the basal inferoseptal wall; akinesis of the middistal inferoseptal wall; hypokinesis of the basal-midinferior wall 4A Anterior LV Anterior and anterolateral LV

ECGI = electrocardiographic imaging; LV = left ventricle; RV = right ventricle.