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HEART FAILURE AND CARDIOMYOPATHY |
1 National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, UK
2 Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK
3 International Centre for Circulatory Health, St. Marys Hospital, London, UK
Correspondence to:
Dr T V Salukhe, National Heart Lung Institute, Royal Brompton Hospital, Sydney Street, London SW3 6NP, UK; t.salukhe{at}imperial.ac.uk
ABSTRACT
Background: Cardiac resynchronisation therapy improves peak oxygen uptake (peak VO2) 3–9 months after device implantation. In chronic heart failure, total isovolumic time (t-IVT) is a major determinant of peak VO2 and of cardiac output at peak dobutamine stress. In selected patients, resynchronisation can instantaneously shorten t-IVT. We sought to determine the acute effect of resynchronisation on exercise performance and determine, with pharmacological stress echocardiography, the mechanism underlying this effect.
Methods and results: Twenty-two patients with resynchronisation were studied within 3 months after device implantation. On a single study day, sequential cardiopulmonary exercise tests were performed during native activation (left bundle branch block) and resynchronisation (atrio-biventricular pacing) in random order. Total-IVT and cardiac output (at rest and peak dobutamine stress) were then measured in each activation mode.
Resynchronisation acutely increased peak VO2 by 1.6 (SD 1.5) ml/kg/min (p<0.001) and shortened peak stress t-IVT by 10 (SD 7) s/min (p<0.001), with the effects in individual patients showing a correlation (r = –0.46, p<0.05). Amongst all measurements during native activation, the best predictor of gain in peak VO2 from resynchronisation was peak stress t-IVT (r = 0.71, p<0.001) with every increment of 5 s/min of peak stress t-IVT during native activation predicting an 8% gain in peak VO2. No conventional measures during native activation at rest or on stress (including QRS duration, Tei index, tissue Doppler intraventricular delay, and resting t-IVT) added significant additional information.
Conclusions: In eligible patients, resynchronisation can acutely augment peak VO2, possibly through a mechanism of t-IVT shortening. Under native activation, long t-IVT during peak stress is the single best predictor of acute resynchronisation-mediated increment in peak VO2.
Keywords: resynchronisation; exercise performance; stress echocardiography; total isovolumic time
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