Recovery of atrioventricular conduction in patients with heart block after transcatheter aortic valve replacement.
Colin A RaelsonJames GabrielsJonathan RuanJames E IpGeorge ThomasChristopher F LiuJim W CheungBruce B LermanApoor PatelSteven M MarkowitzPublished in: Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology (2017)
A majority of patients who receive PPMs for HD-AVB after TAVR recover AV conduction during follow-up, and in most patients conduction recovery occurs within weeks. These findings imply that programming to minimize ventricular pacing may be beneficial in a majority of these patients.