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2021 May 13


Europace

Impact of closed loop stimulation on prognostic cardiopulmonary variables in patients with chronic heart failure and severe chronotropic incompetence: a pilot, randomized, crossover study.

Authors

Proff J, Merkely B, Papp R, Lenz C, Nordbeck P, Butter C, Meyerhoefer J, Doering M, MacCarter DJ, Ingel K, Thouet T, Landmesser U, Roser MJ
Europace. 2021 May 13.
PMID: 33982093.

Abstract

Clinical effects of rate-adaptive pacing in heart failure patients with chronotropic incompetence (CI) undergoing cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) remain unclear. Closed loop stimulation (CLS) is a new rate-adaptive sensor in CRT devices. We evaluated the effectiveness of CLS in CRT patients with severe CI, focusing primarily on key prognostic variables assessed by cardiopulmonary exercise (CPX) testing.