Optimal pacing in congenital complete atrioventricular block of immunological origin: interest of multisite stimulation

Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2007 Jul;30(7):912-5. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2007.00781.x.

Abstract

An infant with a congenital auriculoventricular block (CAVB) of immunological origin was diagnosed prenatally. The mother had Gougerot-Sjögren disease with positive anti-Sjogren's Syndrome A (SSA) and Sjogren's Syndrome B (SSB) serologies. Cardiac pacing was necessary and the epicardial route was chosen. Considering the left ventricular (LV) dilatation, bi-ventricular (BiV) stimulation was preferred to the usual DDD mode, presumed to have a deleterious long-term effect. Echographic parameters were better with BiV stimulation: the asynchronism induced by mono-RV stimulation was corrected and the QRS complexes were narrower. BiV pacing of a CAVB with LV dilation looks clinically and echographically attractive but needs to be validated in the long term.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Cardiac Pacing, Artificial / methods*
  • Echocardiography
  • Electrocardiography
  • Heart Block / congenital*
  • Heart Block / immunology
  • Heart Block / physiopathology*
  • Heart Defects, Congenital / immunology
  • Heart Defects, Congenital / physiopathology*
  • Humans
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Male
  • Sjogren's Syndrome / immunology