David E Haines1, Wilson Wong2, Robert Canby3, Coty Jewell4, Mahmoud Houmsse5, David Pederson6, Lissa Sugeng7, John Porterfield8, Anil Kottam8, John Pearce9, Jon Valvano9, Joel Michalek10, Aron Trevino10, Sandeep Sagar10, Marc D Feldman10. 1. Beaumont Health, Royal Oak, Michigan. Electronic address: David.Haines2@beaumont.edu. 2. Arkansas Heart Hospital, Little Rock, Arkansas. 3. Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia, Austin, Texas. 4. Oklahoma Heart Hospital, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 5. Ohio State University Hospital, Columbus, Ohio. 6. Cardiology Clinic of San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas. 7. Yale Echocardiographic Core Lab, New Haven, Connecticut. 8. Admittance Technologies, Inc., Austin, Texas. 9. The University of Texas, Austin, Texas. 10. University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: There is increasing evidence that using frequent invasive measures of pressure in patients with heart failure results in improved outcomes compared to traditional measures. Admittance, a measure of volume derived from preexisting defibrillation leads, is proposed as a new technique to monitor cardiac hemodynamics in patients with an implantable defibrillator. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of a new ventricular volume sensor (VVS, CardioVol) compared with 3-dimenssional echocardiography (echo) in patients with an implantable defibrillator. METHODS: Twenty-two patients referred for generator replacement had their defibrillation lead attached to VVS to determine the level of agreement to a volume measurement standard (echo). Two opposite hemodynamic challenges were sequentially applied to the heart (overdrive pacing and dobutamine administration) to determine whether real changes in hemodynamics could be reliably and repeatedly assessed with VVS. Equivalence of end-diastolic volume (EDV) and stroke volume (SV) determined by both methods was also assessed. RESULTS: EDV and SV were compared using VVS and echo. VVS tracked expected physiologic trends. EDV was modulated -10% by overdrive pacing (14 mL). SV was modulated -13.7% during overdrive pacing (-6 mL) and increased over baseline +14.6% (+8 mL) with dobutamine. VVS and echo mean EDVs were found statistically equivalent, with margin of equivalence 13.8 mL (P <.05). Likewise, mean SVs were found statistically equivalent with margin of equivalence 15.8 mL (P <.05). CONCLUSION: VVS provides an accurate method for ventricular volume assessment using chronically implanted defibrillator leads and is statistically equivalent to echo determination of mean EDV and SV.
BACKGROUND: There is increasing evidence that using frequent invasive measures of pressure in patients with heart failure results in improved outcomes compared to traditional measures. Admittance, a measure of volume derived from preexisting defibrillation leads, is proposed as a new technique to monitor cardiac hemodynamics in patients with an implantable defibrillator. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of a new ventricular volume sensor (VVS, CardioVol) compared with 3-dimenssional echocardiography (echo) in patients with an implantable defibrillator. METHODS: Twenty-two patients referred for generator replacement had their defibrillation lead attached to VVS to determine the level of agreement to a volume measurement standard (echo). Two opposite hemodynamic challenges were sequentially applied to the heart (overdrive pacing and dobutamine administration) to determine whether real changes in hemodynamics could be reliably and repeatedly assessed with VVS. Equivalence of end-diastolic volume (EDV) and stroke volume (SV) determined by both methods was also assessed. RESULTS: EDV and SV were compared using VVS and echo. VVS tracked expected physiologic trends. EDV was modulated -10% by overdrive pacing (14 mL). SV was modulated -13.7% during overdrive pacing (-6 mL) and increased over baseline +14.6% (+8 mL) with dobutamine. VVS and echo mean EDVs were found statistically equivalent, with margin of equivalence 13.8 mL (P <.05). Likewise, mean SVs were found statistically equivalent with margin of equivalence 15.8 mL (P <.05). CONCLUSION: VVS provides an accurate method for ventricular volume assessment using chronically implanted defibrillator leads and is statistically equivalent to echo determination of mean EDV and SV.
Authors: Aleksandra B Gruslova; Andrew G Cabe; Anil Kottam; John Walmsley; John E Porterfield; Edward Y Sako; Marc D Feldman; Jonathan W Valvano Journal: Ann Thorac Surg Date: 2021-12-07 Impact factor: 5.102