TY - JOUR
T1 - Unexpected and undesired side-effects of pacing algorithms during exercise
AU - Strik, Marc
AU - Socie, Pierre
AU - Ploux, Sylvain
AU - Bordachar, Pierre
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - While the implantable pacemaker has initially been developed to treat symptomatic bradycardia, we demand of modern devices that they also function properly during exercise. In recent years, device manufacturers have implemented multiple proprietary algorithms which aim to improve pacemaker function by avoiding unnecessary right ventricular pacing, optimizing atrial refractory periods and diagnosing pacemaker mediated tachycardia. When activated, these algorithms may save the associated EGM into the device memory which enables later analysis by remote monitoring or device interrogation. In addition, the performance of an exercise-test while analyzing the EGM, enables the verification of proper algorithm function, the evaluation of residual symptoms and the optimization of specific parameters that vary as a function of heart rate. In this manuscript, we demonstrate how pacemaker algorithms may induce dropped P-waves during exercise in pacemaker dependent patients and loss of biventricular pacing in CRT patients. (C) 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
AB - While the implantable pacemaker has initially been developed to treat symptomatic bradycardia, we demand of modern devices that they also function properly during exercise. In recent years, device manufacturers have implemented multiple proprietary algorithms which aim to improve pacemaker function by avoiding unnecessary right ventricular pacing, optimizing atrial refractory periods and diagnosing pacemaker mediated tachycardia. When activated, these algorithms may save the associated EGM into the device memory which enables later analysis by remote monitoring or device interrogation. In addition, the performance of an exercise-test while analyzing the EGM, enables the verification of proper algorithm function, the evaluation of residual symptoms and the optimization of specific parameters that vary as a function of heart rate. In this manuscript, we demonstrate how pacemaker algorithms may induce dropped P-waves during exercise in pacemaker dependent patients and loss of biventricular pacing in CRT patients. (C) 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
KW - DUAL-CHAMBER PACEMAKERS
KW - MODE
U2 - 10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2018.08.021
DO - 10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2018.08.021
M3 - Article
C2 - 30497724
SN - 0022-0736
VL - 51
SP - 1023
EP - 1028
JO - Journal of Electrocardiology
JF - Journal of Electrocardiology
IS - 6
ER -