Activation time at the left ventricular pacing site (QLV) relative to the actual site of latest activation-Implications for response to cardiac resynchronization therapy

Niraj Varma; Leonor Parreira; Alexey Tsyganov; Elena Artyukhina; Kevin Vernooy; Claudio Tondo; Ciro Ascione; Salomé Carvalho; Matthias Egger; Magnus Holm; Albina Shapieva; Antonius van Stipdonk; Irina Taymasova; Stepan Zubarev; Angelo Auricchio

doi:10.1016/j.hrthm.2023.04.017

Activation time at the left ventricular pacing site (QLV) relative to the actual site of latest activation-Implications for response to cardiac resynchronization therapy

Heart Rhythm. 2023 Aug;20(8):1199-1201. doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2023.04.017. Epub 2023 Apr 26.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio. Electronic address: varman@ccf.org.
² Department of Electrophysiology, Hospital da Luz, S.A., Lisbon, Portugal.
³ I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russian Federation; Petrovsky National Research Centre of Surgery, Moscow, Russian Federation.
⁴ A.V. Vishnevsky National Medical Research Center of Surgery, Moscow, Russian Federation.
⁵ Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht (CARIM), Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
⁶ Heart Rhythm Center, Centro Cardiologico Monzino IRCCS, Milan, Italy.
⁷ EP Solutions SA, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland.
⁸ Petrovsky National Research Centre of Surgery, Moscow, Russian Federation.
⁹ Almazov National Medical Research Centre, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation.
¹⁰ Division of Cardiology, Istituto Cardiocentro Ticino, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, Lugano, Switzerland.

PMID: 37116633
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2023.04.017

No abstract available

Keywords: Activation time; CRT; CRT response; Cardiac resynchronization therapy; ECGI; Heart failure; Left bundle branch block; Left ventricular pacing site; Noninvasive electrical activation mapping; QLV.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Letter

MeSH terms

Bundle-Branch Block
Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy*
Electrocardiography
Heart Failure* / therapy
Heart Ventricles
Humans
Treatment Outcome
Ventricular Function, Left / physiology