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[Echocardiographic assessment of myocardial function during His bundle and right ventricular pacing]
W Fehske1, C W Israel2, S Winter1
1Klinik für Innere Medizin III (Kardiologie), St. Vinzenz-Hospital, Köln, Deutschland.
Introduction:
In patients with pacemaker (PM) therapy, His bundle stimulation (HBS) may lead to a more synchronous activation of the left ventricle (LV) than conventional right ventricular stimulation (RVS). In this study, we investigated to which extent this effect can be objectified by means of contemporary echocardiographic functional imaging.
Methods:
In all, 15 RVS patients (6 women, mean age 76.6 ± 4.1 years) and 15 HBS patients (6 women, mean age 74.6 ± 3.7 years) underwent echocardiography with and without cardiac pacing. Besides LV end-diastolic volume (EDV), ejection fraction (EF), and global strain (GLS), we measured global and regional myocardial work and LV efficiency based on noninvasive pressure-strain loops.
Results:
In all HBS patients, optimization of PM settings resulted in immediate changes in myocardial function parameters. With pacing, RVS patients showed a higher decrease in EF and GLS than HBS patients. Global LV work and LV work efficiency decreased significantly only in RVS patients.
Conclusion:
Changes in regional and global myocardial function can by proven and quantified by functional echocardiography. In patients under PM therapy, HBS shows functional advantages in comparison to conventional RVS.
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