The impact of chronotropic incompetence on atrioventricular conduction times in heart failure patients.
Hong-Xia NiuYinghong YuVasanth RavikumarMichael R GoldPublished in: Journal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology : an international journal of arrhythmias and pacing (2023)
The AV response to overdrive atrial pacing at rest may provide a simple means of identifying chronotropic competence in CRT patients. For patients with CI, who often require rate-adaptive atrial pacing, rate-adaptive AV algorithms should be adjusted individually.