Key result
Acoustic cardiography detects phrenic nerve stimulation to optimize biventricular pacemaker settings.
Why the study?
A simple non-invasive test to detect pacemaker-induced phrenic nerve stimulation during biventricular pacemaker implantation was needed.
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Design
Case study
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May assist phrenic stimulation avoidance during CRT; hypothesis-generating from single case and needs prospective validation.
This case study illustrates that acoustic cardiography--a simple non-invasive test--can be applied in any diagnostic setting as well as during biventricular pacemaker implantation to ensure that the pacemaker settings are not leading to phrenic nerve stimulation.
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Toggweiler et al. (2007) studied this question. Acoustic cardiography can be utilized during biventricular pacemaker implantation and routine diagnostic settings to ensure pacemaker settings do not cause phrenic nerve stimulation.
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