Automated detection of effective left-ventricular pacing: going beyond percentage pacing counters
Automated detection of effective left-ventricular pacing: going beyond percentage pacing counters
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DOI:
10.1093/europace/euv062
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发表时间:
2015-10-01
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6.1
通讯作者:
Mittal, Suneet
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作者:
Ghosh, Subham;Stadler, RobertW.;Mittal, Suneet
Aims Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) devices report percentage pacing as a diagnostic but cannot determine the effectiveness of each paced beat in capturing left-ventricular (LV) myocardium. Reasons for ineffective LV pacing include improper timing (i.e. pseudofusion) or inadequate pacing output. Device-based determination of effective LV pacing may facilitate optimization of CRT response.Methods and results Effective capture at the LV cathode results in a negative deflection (QS or QS-r morphology) on a unipolar electrogram (EGM). Morphological features of LV cathode-RV coil EGMs were analysed to develop a device-based automatic algorithm, which classified each paced beat as effective or ineffective LV pacing. The algorithm was validated using acute data from 28 CRT-defibrillator patients. Effective LV pacing and pseudofusion was simulated by pacing at various AV delays. Loss of LV capture was simulated by RV-only pacing. The algorithm always classified LV or biventricular (BV) pacing with AV delays