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Comparison of two strategies to reduce ventricular pacing in pacemaker patients

Puererfellner, Helmut ; Brandt, Johan LU ; Israel, Carsten ; Sheldon, Todd ; Johnson, James ; Tscheliessnigg, Karlheinz ; Sperzel, Johannes ; Boriani, Giuseppe ; Puglisi, Andrea and Milasinovic, Goran (2008) In PACE 31(2). p.167-176
Abstract
Background: Managed Ventricular Pacing (MVP) and Search AV+ (SAV+) are two pacing algorithms designed to reduce ventricular pacing, MVP promotes conduction by operating in AAI/R mode with backup ventricular pacing during atrioventricular block (AVB). SAV+ operates in DDD/R mode with a nominal AV extension of 290 ms during atrial sensing and 320 ms during atrial pacing. The reduction in ventricular pacing was compared with these two algorithms in pacemaker patients. Methods: The EnRhythm and EnPulse clinical studies assessed the Percentage of ventricular pacing (% VP) after 1 month. Each patient's AVB status was assigned using the following hierarchical categories: persistent third-degree AVB (p3AVB), episodic third-degree AVB (e3AVB),... (More)
Background: Managed Ventricular Pacing (MVP) and Search AV+ (SAV+) are two pacing algorithms designed to reduce ventricular pacing, MVP promotes conduction by operating in AAI/R mode with backup ventricular pacing during atrioventricular block (AVB). SAV+ operates in DDD/R mode with a nominal AV extension of 290 ms during atrial sensing and 320 ms during atrial pacing. The reduction in ventricular pacing was compared with these two algorithms in pacemaker patients. Methods: The EnRhythm and EnPulse clinical studies assessed the Percentage of ventricular pacing (% VP) after 1 month. Each patient's AVB status was assigned using the following hierarchical categories: persistent third-degree AVB (p3AVB), episodic third-degree AVB (e3AVB), second-degree AVB (2AVB), first-degree AVB (1AVB), and no AVB (nAVB). The% VP was tabulated for each AVB status category. Results: Data were available from 322 patients of whom 129 received DDD(R) pacing with the MVP algorithm activated and 193 patients with DDD(R) pacing and the SAV+ function activated, each for a month period. MVP resulted in a significantly lower median % VP than SAV+ in all AVB categories except for p3AVB: nAVB (0.3 vs 2.9, P < 0.0001), 1AVB (0.9% vs 80.6%. P < 0.0001), 2AVB (37.6 vs 99.3. P < 0.002), e3AVB (1.2 vs 42.2, P = 0.02), p3AVB (98.9 vs 100, P = 1.00). Conclusion: MVP resulted in a greater reduction in% VP than SAV+ across all patient groups except persistent third-degree AV block. The greatest reduction in%VP was observed in patients with mildly impaired AV conduction. (Less)
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intrinsic AV conduction, ventricular pacing, AV block, pacing algorithms
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PACE
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31
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2
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167 - 176
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Wiley-Blackwell
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  • scopus:38849110690
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1540-8159
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10.1111/j.1540-8159.2007.00965.x
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English
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  abstract     = {{Background: Managed Ventricular Pacing (MVP) and Search AV+ (SAV+) are two pacing algorithms designed to reduce ventricular pacing, MVP promotes conduction by operating in AAI/R mode with backup ventricular pacing during atrioventricular block (AVB). SAV+ operates in DDD/R mode with a nominal AV extension of 290 ms during atrial sensing and 320 ms during atrial pacing. The reduction in ventricular pacing was compared with these two algorithms in pacemaker patients. Methods: The EnRhythm and EnPulse clinical studies assessed the Percentage of ventricular pacing (% VP) after 1 month. Each patient's AVB status was assigned using the following hierarchical categories: persistent third-degree AVB (p3AVB), episodic third-degree AVB (e3AVB), second-degree AVB (2AVB), first-degree AVB (1AVB), and no AVB (nAVB). The% VP was tabulated for each AVB status category. Results: Data were available from 322 patients of whom 129 received DDD(R) pacing with the MVP algorithm activated and 193 patients with DDD(R) pacing and the SAV+ function activated, each for a month period. MVP resulted in a significantly lower median % VP than SAV+ in all AVB categories except for p3AVB: nAVB (0.3 vs 2.9, P &lt; 0.0001), 1AVB (0.9% vs 80.6%. P &lt; 0.0001), 2AVB (37.6 vs 99.3. P &lt; 0.002), e3AVB (1.2 vs 42.2, P = 0.02), p3AVB (98.9 vs 100, P = 1.00). Conclusion: MVP resulted in a greater reduction in% VP than SAV+ across all patient groups except persistent third-degree AV block. The greatest reduction in%VP was observed in patients with mildly impaired AV conduction.}},
  author       = {{Puererfellner, Helmut and Brandt, Johan and Israel, Carsten and Sheldon, Todd and Johnson, James and Tscheliessnigg, Karlheinz and Sperzel, Johannes and Boriani, Giuseppe and Puglisi, Andrea and Milasinovic, Goran}},
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  keywords     = {{intrinsic AV conduction; ventricular pacing; AV block; pacing algorithms}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{2}},
  pages        = {{167--176}},
  publisher    = {{Wiley-Blackwell}},
  series       = {{PACE}},
  title        = {{Comparison of two strategies to reduce ventricular pacing in pacemaker patients}},
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  doi          = {{10.1111/j.1540-8159.2007.00965.x}},
  volume       = {{31}},
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