Pacing tachycardia exaggerates left ventricular diastolic dysfunction but not systolic function and regional asynergy or asynchrony in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Europace : European Pacing, Arrhythmias, and Cardiac Electrophysiology : Journal of the Working Groups on Cardiac Pacing, Arrhythmias, and Cardiac Cellular Electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology
Toshiaki TarumiTetsu Yamakado

Abstract

Myocardial ischaemia and angina have been demonstrated in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). We hypothesized that left ventricular (LV) systolic or diastolic dysfunction would be provocated by pacing tachycardia in patients with HCM. We investigated LV global and regional systolic and diastolic function in 17 patients with HCM without LV outflow obstruction and 7 normal subjects by analysing LV angiograms and simultaneously obtained high-fidelity LV pressures before and after rapid cardiac pacing (150 b.p.m.). Biplane LV silhouettes were digitized frame by frame (50 frames/s). To quantify regional dynamics, the ventricular area of the right anterior oblique projection was divided into six sections originating from the midpoint of the long axis at end-diastole. There were no significant changes in LV function after pacing in normal subjects. In HCM, the ejection fractions remained unchanged. However, LV end-diastolic pressures rose (+12 mmHg, P < 0.01), and the time constants of isovolumic pressure decay were significantly increased (T(1/2): +5.2 ms, P < 0.01; T(1/)(e): +6.8 ms, P < 0.01). The LV global diastolic pressure-volume relationships and regional diastolic pressure-area relationships of regional myocardium...Continue Reading

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