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Methods: 38 patients aged 18.0\u201354.9 years (median age 24.9 years) who had undergone complete repair of the tetralogy of Fallot were examined using CMR and concomitant 24 h ambulatory electrocardiography monitoring. We used statistical analysis to investigate the correlations between electrocardiographic parameters (heart rate, HR; PQ interval, PQ; QRS duration, QRS; and corrected QT interval, QTc) and CMR results (right ventricular ejection fraction, RVEF; right ventricular end-diastolic volume index, RVEDVI; and right ventricular end-systolic volume index, RVESVI) for patients after early and late repair. Results: The ECG-based parameters were not correlated with time since repair. There were significant correlations between QRS duration and RVEF (r = \u22120.61), RVEDVI (r = 0.56), and RVESVI (r = 0.54) for early operated patients but not for late-operated patients. No other substantial correlations were reported. Conclusion: Despite its role in screening for arrhythmias, electrocardiography has a limited role as a predictor of morphology and function of the right ventricle in patients after repair of the tetralogy of Fallot.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jcm10194298","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,9,26]],"date-time":"2021-09-26T22:24:13Z","timestamp":1632695053000},"page":"4298","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["What Is the Importance of Electrocardiography in the Routine Screening of Patients with Repaired Tetralogy of Fallot?"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7819-881X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Paulina","family":"Lubocka","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Paediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease, Medical University of Gda\u0144sk, 80-952 Gda\u0144sk, Poland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Robert","family":"Sabiniewicz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Paediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease, Medical University of Gda\u0144sk, 80-952 Gda\u0144sk, Poland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,9,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"803","DOI":"10.1016\/j.amjcard.2019.05.048","article-title":"Mechanism and Risk Factors for Death in Adults With Tetralogy of Fallot","volume":"124","author":"Egbe","year":"2019","journal-title":"Am. 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