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A Time‐Related Study by Doppler and M‐Mode Echocardiography of Hemodynamics, Heart Size, and AV Valvular Function During Activity‐Sensing Rate‐Responsive Ventricular Pacing
Author(s) -
FAERESTRAND SVEIN,
OHM OLEJØRGEN
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
pacing and clinical electrophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.686
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1540-8159
pISSN - 0147-8389
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1987.tb04514.x
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , heart rate , hemodynamics , stroke volume , doppler echocardiography , ventricular pacing , diastole , heart failure , blood pressure
Noninvasive Doppler and M‐mode echocardiography were used to: measure stroke volume (SV), left atrial (LA) size, left ventricular end‐diastolic (EDD), end‐systolic dimensions (ESD), left ventricular fractional shortening (FS), and for determination of mitral and tricuspid insufficiency (MI and TI) before starting and after 1, 3, and 6 months of rate‐responsive ventricular pacing (RRP). The study group consisted of 13 patients (mean age, 75 years) who could be expected to benefit from an increase in cardiac output mediated by an increment of heart rate during exercise. In VVI + activity mode (RRP), the pacemaker was programmed to a basic heart rate of 60 and a maximum heart rate of 125 bpm. The SV at rest was 71 ± 5 before RRP, and fell to 57 ± 4 after 3 months (p < 0.05) and to 53 ± 4 ml/beat after 6 months of RRP (p < .01). The LA size and ESD were unchanged during follow‐up. The EDD decreased from 6.2 ± 0.3 to 5.4 ± 0.2 (p < 0.002) during the first 6 months of RRP. The FS was reduced from 33 ± 4 to 27 ± 3% (p < 0.02) during the first 6 months of RRP. Four of 6 patients treated previously with a VVI pacemaker (mean duration, 9 years) had MI + TI, and 3 of the 7 patients not paced previously had MI hefore RRP. In the last group, 1 new patient developed MI, 1 new patient deveioped MI + TI, and 2 patients who had MI also developed TI within 6 months of pacing. Thus, of 13 patients, 9 (69%) had either MI or MI + TI.