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We used non-invasive electrocardiographic imaging to characterize patients with HCM, including cardiac arrest survivors.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Methods:<\/jats:bold> HCM patients surviving ventricular fibrillation or hemodynamically unstable ventricular tachycardia (n = 17) were compared to HCM patients without a personal history of potentially lethal arrhythmia (n = 20) and a pooled control group with structurally normal hearts. Subjects underwent exercise testing by non-invasive electrocardiographic imaging to estimate epicardial electrophysiology.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Results:<\/jats:bold> Visual inspection of reconstructed epicardial HCM maps revealed isolated patches of late activation time (AT), prolonged activation-recovery intervals (ARIs), as well as reversal of apico-basal trends in T-wave inversion and ARI compared to controls (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.005 for all). AT and ARI were compared between groups. The pooled HCM group had longer mean AT (60.1\u00a0ms vs. 52.2\u00a0ms, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.001), activation dispersion (55.2\u00a0ms vs. 48.6\u00a0ms, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.026), and mean ARI (227\u00a0ms vs. 217\u00a0ms, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.016) than structurally normal heart controls. HCM ventricular arrhythmia survivors could be differentiated from HCM patients without a personal history of life-threatening arrhythmia by longer mean AT (63.2\u00a0ms vs. 57.4\u00a0ms, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.007), steeper activation gradients (0.45\u00a0ms\/mm vs. 0.36\u00a0ms\/mm, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.011), and longer mean ARI (234.0\u00a0ms vs. 221.4\u00a0ms, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.026). A logistic regression model including whole heart mean activation time and activation recovery interval could identify ventricular arrhythmia survivors from the HCM cohort, producing a C statistic of 0.76 (95% confidence interval 0.72\u20130.81), with an optimal sensitivity of 78.6% and a specificity of 79.8%.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Discussion:<\/jats:bold> The HCM epicardial electrotype is characterized by delayed, dispersed conduction and prolonged, dispersed activation-recovery intervals. Combination of electrophysiologic measures with logistic regression can improve differentiation over single variables. Future studies could test such models prospectively for risk stratification of sudden death due to HCM.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3389\/fphys.2024.1428709","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,8,14]],"date-time":"2024-08-14T07:08:54Z","timestamp":1723619334000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["The arrhythmic substrate of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy using ECG imaging"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Ji-Jian","family":"Chow","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Kevin M. 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