Key result
Rate-adaptive pacing improves exercise capacity and oxygen consumption over fixed-rated pacing, providing symptomatic benefit for patients with chronotropic incompetence.
Why the study?
Does rate-adaptive pacing using implantable sensors improve exercise capacity and symptoms compared to fixed-rate pacing in patients with chronotropic incompetence?
Does rate-adaptive pacing using implantable sensors improve exercise capacity and symptoms compared to fixed-rate pacing in patients with chronotropic incompetence?
Rate-adaptive pacing using implantable sensors improves exercise capacity and symptoms in patients with chronotropic incompetence compared to fixed-rate pacing.
May support sensor-driven pacing in symptomatic chronotropic incompetence; leaves open prospective RCT confirmation before practice change.
A physiological pacing system should be able to restore normal chronotropic response and optimal conduction within and between the atrial and ventricular pacing. Implan-table sensors are initially developed to overcome chronotropic incompetence of the sinus node to exercise and non-exercise requirements. Ideal sensor behaviour includes speed of response, proportionality, specificity, and sensitivity. Sensors can be classified by the method they detect a physiological change: body accelerations, paced QRS, impe-dance and sensors that require special leads. Rate-adaptive pacing is proven to improve exercise capacity and oxygen consumption over fixed-rated pacing, especially during ventricular pacing. Patients with chronotropic incompetence can derive symp-tomatic benefit in the rate-adaptive mode. The latest development involves the use of sensors to monitor heart failure, and to best optimize rate and conduction status in cardiac resynchronization therapy.
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Lau et al. (2007) conducted a review in Bradycardia and chronotropic incompetence. Rate-adaptive pacing using implantable sensors vs. Fixed-rated pacing was evaluated. Rate-adaptive pacing improves exercise capacity and oxygen consumption over fixed-rated pacing, providing symptomatic benefit for patients with chronotropic incompetence.
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