A QT sensing rate responsive pacemaker demonstrated an appropriate, physiological rate response during an acute myocardial infarction.
Observation in one case supports physiological QT-sensor response during acute MI; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
A 65-year-old man, treated with the QT sensing rate responsive pacemaker required to manage high degree AV block, sustained a transmural inferior wall myocardial infarction 6 months after the pacemaker implant. The rate response of the pacemaker during the acute phase of the infarction was physiological as evidenced by increased pacing rate during pain and with the gradual decrease in rate during the first postinfarction days. The underlying mechanisms are discussed.
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