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. 2017 Sep 1;36(3):135–150.

Supplemental Table 7.

24h-ECG results of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) and control group, 1/3, 2/3, 3/3 novel criteria fulfilled necessary for diagnosis, respectively. All dogs included.

Parameter ARVC: 1 of 3 novel criteria ARVC: 2 of 3 novel criteria ARVC: 3 of 3 novel criteria
ARVC (n = 89) Controls (n = 42) p-value ARVC (n = 61) Controls (n = 70) p-value ARVC (n = 36) Controls (n = 95) p-value
Time 24h-ECG (h) 24.4 ± 1.0 24.5 ± 1.1 0.484 24.4 ± 0.9 24.4 ± 1.1 0.868 24.3 ± 0.8 24.4 ± 1.1 0.429
Mean HR (bpm) 95 ± 24 85 ± 16 0.009 100 ± 26 85 ± 15 0.000 101 ± 29 88 ± 18 0.004
VPC present 88 (98.9%) 37 (88.1%) 0.013 61 (100%) 64 (91.4%) 0.030 36 (100%) 89 (93.7%) 0.123
Number VPC 1802 ± 2996 7 ± 11 0.000 2582 ± 3342 45 ± 167 0.000 2920 ± 3495 585 ± 1821 0.000
Polymorphic VPC 73 (83.9%) 21 (56.8%) 0.002 55 (91.7%) 39 (60.9%) 0.000 35 (97.2%) 59 (67.0%) 0.000
VPC negative lead I 36 (41.9%) 11 (29.7%) 0.230 28 (47.5%) 19 (29.7%) 0.063 20 (55.6%) 27 (31.0%) 0.014
VPC positive lead II 39 (45.3%) 13 (35.1%) 0.325 24 (40.7%) 28 (43.8%) 0.855 14 (38.9%) 38 (43.7%) 0.691
VPC negative lead III 33 (46.5%) 14 (45.2%) 1.000 27 (54.0%) 20 (38.5%) 0.164 17 (56.7%) 30 (41.7%) 0.195
Couplets present 68 (76.4%) 0 (0.0%) 0.000 54 (88.5%) 14 (20.0%) 0.000 36 (100%) 32 (33.7%) 0.000
Number Couplets 388 ± 1601 0 ± 0 0.005 565 ± 1913 2 ± 8 0.015 895 ± 2438 25 ± 150 0.001
Polymorphic couplets 27 (40.9%) NA NA 26 (49.1%) 1 (7.7%) 0.006 18 (50.0%) 9 (30.0%) 0.133
Triplets present 38 (42.7%) 1 (2.4%) 0.000 34 (55.7%) 5 (7.1%) 0.000 26 (72.2%) 13 (13.7%) 0.000
Number Triplets 99 ± 403 0 ± 0 0.003 144 ± 481 0 ± 0 0.013 235 ± 613 4 ± 27 0.000
Polymorphic triplets 10 (25.6%) 0 (0.0%) 1.000 10 (28.6%) 0 (0.0%) 0.306 6 (23.1%) 4 (28.6%) 0.718
VT present 33 (37.1%) 4 (9.5%) 0.001 30 (49.2%) 7 (10.0%) 0.000 21 (58.3%) 16 (16.8%) 0.000
Number VT 96 ± 766 0 ± 1 0.421 140 ± 924 0 ± 1 0.209 235 ± 1201 1 ± 4 0.058
Duration longest VT (beats) 24 ± 31 7 ± 4 0.282 26 ± 33 9 ± 6 0.207 32 ± 37 9 ± 5 0.019
HR fastest VT (bpm) 259 ± 60 261 ± 52 0.967 266 ± 59 234 ± 52 0.193 271 ± 56 244 ± 59 0.159
Polymorphic VT 5 (15.2%) 0 (0.0%) 1.000 5 (16.7%) 0 (0.0%) 0.245 4 (19.0%) 1 (6.3%) 0.259
R-on-T 55 (62.5%) 0 (0.0%) 0.000 46 (76.7%) 9 (13.8%) 0.000 36 (100%) 19 (21.3%) 0.000
Number of beats R-on-T NA NA NA 450 ± 2487 13 ± 25 0.563 631 ± 2805 21 ± 31 0.350
R-on-T % of all beats NA NA NA 26.4 ± 68.1 51.9 ± 24.6 0.275 24.0 ± 72.2 43.1 ± 41.7 0.293

VPC: ventricular premature complexes; HR: heart rate; VT: ventricular tachycardia.