Gianni Pastore, Matteo Bertini, Carlo Bonanno, Giovanni Coluccia, Gabriele Dell'Era, Luca De Mattia, Domenico Grieco, Grigorius Katsouras, Massimiliano Maines, Lina Marcantoni, Leonardo Marinaccio, Gabriele Paglino, Pietro Palmisano, Matteo Ziacchi, Franco Zoppo, Franco Noventa
AIMS: In patients with prolonged atrioventricular (AV) conduction and pacemaker (PM) indication due to sinus node disease (SND) or intermittent AV-block who do not need continuous ventricular pacing (VP), it may be difficult to determine which strategy to adopt. Currently, the standard of care is to minimize unnecessary VP by specific VP avoidance (VPA) algorithms. The superiority of this strategy over standard DDD or DDD rate-responsive (DDD/DDDR) in improving clinical outcomes is controversial, probably owing to the prolongation of the atrialventricular conduction (PR interval) caused by the algorithms...
March 28, 2023: Europace: European Pacing, Arrhythmias, and Cardiac Electrophysiology