Pugazhendhi Vijayaraman1, Bengt Herweg2, Gopi Dandamudi3, Suneet Mittal4, Advay G Bhatt4, Lina Marcantoni5, Angela Naperkowski6, Parikshit S Sharma7, Francesco Zanon5. 1. Geisinger Heart Institute, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Electronic address: pvijayaraman1@geisinger.edu. 2. University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida. 3. Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana. 4. Valley Health System, Ridgewood, New Jersey. 5. Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology Unit, Cardiology Department, Santa Maria Della Misericordia Hospital, Rovigo, Italy. 6. Geisinger Heart Institute, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. 7. Rush University, Chicago, Illinois.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: His-bundle pacing (HBP) is a physiological alternative to right ventricular pacing (RVP). The outcomes of HBP in patients with longstanding atrioventricular block (AVB) and RVP are unknown OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to retrospectively assess the feasibility of HBP in patients with chronic RVP and longstanding AVB and to evaluate its efficacy in reversing the adverse remodeling induced by RVP. METHODS: HBP was attempted in patients with longstanding AVB and chronic RVP and/or pacing-induced cardiomyopathy (PICM) in need for resynchronization therapy. The site of conduction block and feasibility of HBP was documented. Electrocardiographic and echocardiographic assessments at baseline and follow-up were recorded. RESULTS: HBP was successful in 79 of 85 patients (93%) with RVP for 77.6 ± 74.8 months (range 2-540 months). AV nodal block was present in 59 and infranodal block in 26. QRS duration increased from 123 ± 31 ms at baseline to 177 ± 17 ms (P <.001) during RVP and decreased to 115 ± 20 ms with HBP (P <.001). T-wave memory was observed in 53 of 79 patients with HBP and normalized in 2-12 weeks. HBP threshold was 1.47 ± 0.9 V @ 1 ms at implant and 1.9 ± 1.3 V @ 1 ms at last follow-up (25 ± 24 months). In 60 patients with PICM in whom left ventricular ejection fraction decreased from 54% ± 7.7% at baseline to 34.3% ± 9.6% (P <.001), ejection fraction improved to 48.2% ± 9.8% (P <.001) after HBP CONCLUSION: Despite a long duration of AVB and chronic RVP, HBP normalized QRS complexes and T waves with stable thresholds, suggesting that progression of distal conduction disease is uncommon in this population. Electrical and structural changes induced by chronic RVP were consistently reversed with HBP.
BACKGROUND:His-bundle pacing (HBP) is a physiological alternative to right ventricular pacing (RVP). The outcomes of HBP in patients with longstanding atrioventricular block (AVB) and RVP are unknown OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to retrospectively assess the feasibility of HBP in patients with chronic RVP and longstanding AVB and to evaluate its efficacy in reversing the adverse remodeling induced by RVP. METHODS: HBP was attempted in patients with longstanding AVB and chronic RVP and/or pacing-induced cardiomyopathy (PICM) in need for resynchronization therapy. The site of conduction block and feasibility of HBP was documented. Electrocardiographic and echocardiographic assessments at baseline and follow-up were recorded. RESULTS: HBP was successful in 79 of 85 patients (93%) with RVP for 77.6 ± 74.8 months (range 2-540 months). AV nodal block was present in 59 and infranodal block in 26. QRS duration increased from 123 ± 31 ms at baseline to 177 ± 17 ms (P <.001) during RVP and decreased to 115 ± 20 ms with HBP (P <.001). T-wave memory was observed in 53 of 79 patients with HBP and normalized in 2-12 weeks. HBP threshold was 1.47 ± 0.9 V @ 1 ms at implant and 1.9 ± 1.3 V @ 1 ms at last follow-up (25 ± 24 months). In 60 patients with PICM in whom left ventricular ejection fraction decreased from 54% ± 7.7% at baseline to 34.3% ± 9.6% (P <.001), ejection fraction improved to 48.2% ± 9.8% (P <.001) after HBP CONCLUSION: Despite a long duration of AVB and chronic RVP, HBP normalized QRS complexes and T waves with stable thresholds, suggesting that progression of distal conduction disease is uncommon in this population. Electrical and structural changes induced by chronic RVP were consistently reversed with HBP.
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