Intraoperative sensing increase predicts long-term pacing threshold in leadless pacemakers.
Gianfranco MitacchioneGianmarco ArabiaMarco SchiavoneManuel CeriniAlessio GasperettiFrancesca SalghettiLuca BontempiMaurizio VieccaAntonio CurnisGiovanni Battista ForleoPublished in: Journal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology : an international journal of arrhythmias and pacing (2022)
A 1.5-mV increase in R-wave amplitude at implant is predictive of PT normalization (< 1.0 V/0.24 ms) at 12-month FU. This finding may have practical implications for device repositioning in case of HPT recording at implant.