Population
123 patients with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator, including those with single-chamber ICD with…
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Chronotropic incompetence links to reduced exercise capacity in ICD patients; cross-sectional data leave open whether rate-adaptive pacing improves outcomes.
A significant proportion (38%) of ICD patients exhibit chronotropic incompetence, which is associated with reduced exercise capacity and may warrant optimized rate-adaptive pacing strategies.
Melzer et al. (2005) studied this question.
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