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Optimization of Device Programming for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
Author(s) -
BURRI HARAN,
SUNTHORN HENRI,
SHAH DIPEN,
LERCH RENÉ
Publication year - 2006
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.1540-8159.2006.00557.x
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiac resynchronization therapy , cardiology , synchronicity , heart failure , ventricular pacing , ejection fraction , philosophy , epistemology
Cardiac resynchronization therapy may lead to remarkable improvement in clinical status in selected patients with heart failure. However, approximately 20–30% of patients may not respond to this treatment. One of the reasons for this may be suboptimal programming of the device, which has particular considerations as compared to standard pacemakers. Hemodynamic response to pacing may be affected by timing of the atrioventricular (AV) interval, affecting synchronicity of atrial and ventricular contraction. In addition current biventricular devices have separate right and left ventricular channels that allow programming of an interventricular (VV) interval with right or left ventricular preexcitation. This article focuses on the parameters that may be optimized for biventricular pacing, and reviews the different techniques currently available for this application, with special emphasis paid to echocardiography.