Physiological Pacing: Present Status and Future Developments
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology
- Vol. 10 (1) , 41-57
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-8159.1987.tb05923.x
Abstract
With the increasing tendency to implant pacemakers not only for life‐threatening bradycardias but also for improving cardiodynamics in patients with bradycardia, it soon became apparenf that classical VVI pacing is not truly able to optimize circulatory performance. Experience has shown fbat with ventricular pacing augmentation of cardiac output takes place only initially but is not maintained on a long‐term basis,1, 2 exercise capacity remains markedly reduced,3, 5 (here is only an unsatisfactory influence on the degree and course of heart failure2, 4, 6–9 and, in an occasional patient, cardiac function may even deteriorate as compared to the situation prior to pacing.10–13 Because the disappointing hemodynamic effect of fixed rate ventricular stimulation was at least partly due to the “unphysiological” mode of pacing provided by those systems which fail to restore AV synchrony and to increase heart rate with changing metabolic requirements, so called physiological pacemakers were developed. These pacing systems either maintain AV‐synchrony and/or reestablish some way to adapt the pacing rate (Table I). This study delineates the hemodynamics of the paced heart with special reference to the role of AV relationship and rate control; it describes the clinical experience with physiological pacing and provides some ideas leading to present and future developments for rate adaptive pacing systems.Keywords
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