Intracardiac atrial signal amplitude in congenital and acquired complete heart block |
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Authors: | Nasab Mohammad Reza Samiei Dehghani Mohammad Reza Taherioun Mehrdad Rostamzadeh Alireza |
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Institution: | Department of Electrophysiology, Chamran Heart Hospital, Isfahan University of Medical Science, Isfahan, Iran. |
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Abstract: | BackgroundGood and reliable atrial sensing is a fundamental part of atrioventricular (AV) synchrony in dual chamber pacemakers. Due to the floating nature of atrial sensing electrode in single pass dual chamber pacemakers (VDD) compared with two-lead dual chamber pacemakers (DDD), they are more prone to atrial under-sensing and the resulting loss of AV synchrony. We hypothesized that there is a relation between the chronicity of AV block and the amplitude of intracardiac atrial signal amplitudes (IASA).MethodsDetailed demographic, electrocardiographic and echocardiographic data were recorded in 34 consecutive patients with congenital and acquired complete heart block (CHB). The intracardiac atrial signal amplitudes (IASA) were recorded at implantation time, 48 hours and 2 months post-implantation and compared between the two groups of patients.ResultsThe mean age of the study group was 38.73±12.53 years (congenital: 30.08±11.07, acquired: 47.38±6.5). There were no important differences in left atrial or ventricular sizes and in P-wave amplitude in lead II, but the IASA was significantly higher in the congenital group at implantation time (5.21±1.86 vs. 3.38±0.84 mV, P<0.001) and during the follow-up.ConclusionThe intracardiac atrial signal amplitudes were higher in congenital CHB compared with the acquired CHB. Chronicity (and may be the congenital type) of CHB may be an affecting factor in case selection for VDD pacemaker implantation. |
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Keywords: | Atrial signal amplitude Congenital CHB VDD pacemaker |
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