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Awareness of the importance of sleep-related disorders in patients with cardiovascular diseases is growing. In particular, sleep-disordered breathing, short sleep time, and low sleep quality are frequently reported by patients with heart failure (HF). Sleep-disordered breathing, which includes obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) and central sleep apnoea (CSA), is common in patients with HF and has been suggested to increase the morbidity and mortality in these patients. Both OSA and CSA are associated with increased sympathetic activation, vagal withdrawal, altered haemodynamic loading conditions, and hypoxaemia. Moreover, OSA is strongly associated with arterial hypertension, the most common risk factor for cardiac hypertrophy and failure. Intrathoracic pressure changes are also associated with OSA, contributing to haemodynamic alterations and potentially affecting overexpression of genes involved in ventricular remodelling. HF treatment can decrease the severity of both OSA and CSA. Indeed, furosemide and spironolactone administration, exercise training, cardiac resynchronization therapy, and eventually heart transplantation have shown a positive effect on OSA and CSA in patients with HF. At present, whether CSA should be treated and, if so, which is the optimal therapy is still debated. By contrast, more evidence is available on the beneficial effects of OSA treatment in patients with HF.
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Calik MW, Radulovacki M, Carley DW. Intranodose ganglion injections of dronabinol attenuate serotonin-induced apnea in Sprague-Dawley rat. Respir Physiol Neurobiol 2013; 190:20-4. [PMID: 24121138 DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2013.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2013] [Revised: 09/30/2013] [Accepted: 10/01/2013] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Obstructive sleep apnea represents a significant public health concern. Afferent vagal activation is implicated in increased apnea susceptibility by reducing upper airway muscle tone via activation of serotonin receptors in the nodose ganglia. Previous investigations demonstrated that systemically administered cannabinoids can be used therapeutically to decrease the apnea/hypopnea index in rats and in humans. However, cannabinoids have effects on both the central and peripheral nervous systems, and the exact mechanism of decreased apnea/hypopnea index with cannabinoids is unknown. Here, we hypothesized that intranodose ganglion injections of a cannabinoid will attenuate 5-HT-induced reflex apnea and increase upper airway muscle tone. We show that dronabinol injected locally into the nodose ganglia suppresses 5-HT-induced reflex apnea, and increases phasic, but not tonic, activation of the genioglossus. These data support the view that dronabinol stabilizes respiratory pattern and augments upper airway muscles by acting at the nodose ganglia. These findings underscore a therapeutic potential of dronabinol for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea.
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- Michael W Calik
- Center for Narcolepsy, Sleep and Health Research, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; Department of Biobehavioral Health Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
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Choi SJ, Kim JS. Clinically Different Phenotypes of Obstructive Sleep Apnea according to 24 Hours Heart Rate Tachogram Pattern. SLEEP MEDICINE RESEARCH 2011. [DOI: 10.17241/smr.2011.2.1.21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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WENG CUILIAN, CHEN QIANG, MA YANLIANG, HE QUANYING. A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Atrial Overdrive Pacing on Sleep Apnea Syndrome. PACING AND CLINICAL ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY: PACE 2009; 32:1434-43. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2009.02474.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Lüthje L, Renner B, Kessels R, Vollmann D, Raupach T, Gerritse B, Tasci S, Schwab JO, Zabel M, Zenker D, Schott P, Hasenfuss G, Unterberg-Buchwald C, Andreas S. Cardiac resynchronization therapy and atrial overdrive pacing for the treatment of central sleep apnoea. Eur J Heart Fail 2009; 11:273-80. [PMID: 19147446 PMCID: PMC2645047 DOI: 10.1093/eurjhf/hfn042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2008] [Revised: 11/09/2008] [Accepted: 11/20/2008] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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AIMS The combined therapeutic impact of atrial overdrive pacing (AOP) and cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) on central sleep apnoea (CSA) in chronic heart failure (CHF) so far has not been investigated. We aimed to evaluate the effect of CRT alone and CRT + AOP on CSA in CHF patients and to compare the influence of CRT on CHF between CSA positive and CSA negative patients. METHODS AND RESULTS Thirty patients with CRT indication underwent full night polysomnography, echocardiography, exercise testing, and neurohumoral evaluation before and 3 months after CRT implantation. In CSA positive patients (60%), two additional sleep studies were conducted after 3 months of CRT, with CRT alone or CRT + AOP, in random order. Cardiac resynchronization therapy resulted in significant improvements of NYHA class, left ventricular ejection fraction, N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide, VO(2)max, and quality of life irrespective of the presence of CSA. Cardiac resynchronization therapy also reduced the central apnoea-hypopnoea index (AHI) (33.6 +/- 14.3 vs. 23.8 +/- 16.9 h(-1); P < 0.01) and central apnoea index (17.3 +/- 14.1 vs. 10.9 +/- 13.9 h(-1); P < 0.01) without altering sleep stages. Cardiac resynchronization therapy with atrial overdrive pacing resulted in a small but significant additional decrease of the central AHI (23.8 +/- 16.9 vs. 21.5 +/- 16.9 h(-1); P < 0.01). CONCLUSION In this study, CRT significantly improved CSA without altering sleep stages. Cardiac resynchronization therapy with atrial overdrive pacing resulted in a significant but minor additional improvement of CSA. Positive effects of CRT were irrespective of the presence of CSA.
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- Lars Lüthje
- Kardiologie und Pneumologie, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany.
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Bhadriraju S, Kemp CR, Cheruvu M, Bhadriraju S. Sleep apnea syndrome: implications on cardiovascular diseases. Crit Pathw Cardiol 2008; 7:248-253. [PMID: 19050422 DOI: 10.1097/hpc.0b013e31818ae644] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Global risk assessment is the standard of care for coronary artery disease management. In this setting, sleep apnea syndrome, which includes obstructive sleep apnea and central sleep apnea, is being increasingly recognized as a potentially modifiable risk factor for coronary artery disease. Emerging evidence points toward a cause and effect relationship between sleep apnea syndrome and medical conditions like insulin resistance, hypertension, heart failure, and myocardial ischemia. The effects of sleep apnea on coronary artery disease can be independent of many traditional risk factors. Continuous positive airway pressure has been shown to decrease inflammatory markers that are elevated in sleep apnea syndrome. Well-designed randomized controlled clinical trials are needed to better establish the role of sleep apnea in the genesis and progression of coronary artery disease.
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- Satish Bhadriraju
- Internal Medicine Department, Memorial University Medical Center, Savannah, Georgia 31404, USA.
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Al-Angari HM, Sahakian AV. Use of sample entropy approach to study heart rate variability in obstructive sleep apnea syndrome. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2007; 54:1900-4. [PMID: 17926691 DOI: 10.1109/tbme.2006.889772] [Citation(s) in RCA: 170] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Sample entropy, a nonlinear signal processing approach, was used as a measure of signal complexity to evaluate the cyclic behavior of heart rate variability (HRV) in obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS). In a group of 10 normal and 25 OSA subjects, the sample entropy measure showed that normal subjects have significantly more complex HRV pattern than the OSA subjects (p < 0.005). When compared with spectral analysis in a minute-by-minute classification, sample entropy had an accuracy of 70.3% (69.5% sensitivity, 70.8% specificity) while the spectral analysis had an accuracy of 70.4% (71.3% sensitivity, 69.9% specificity). The combination of the two methods improved the accuracy to 72.9% (72.2% sensitivity, 73.3% specificity). The sample entropy approach does not show major improvement over the existing methods. In fact, its accuracy in detecting sleep apnea is relatively low in the well classified data of the physionet. Its main achievement however, is the simplicity of computation. Sample entropy and other nonlinear methods might be useful tools to detect apnea episodes during sleep.
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- Haitham M Al-Angari
- Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, King AbdulAziz University, P.O. Box 80204, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia.
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Turitto G, El-Sherif N. Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy: A Review of Proarrhythmic and Antiarrhythmic Mechanisms. PACING AND CLINICAL ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY: PACE 2007; 30:115-22. [PMID: 17241325 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2007.00585.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Available evidence supports the hypothesis that cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) results in favorable structural as well as electrical remodeling. Electrical remodeling seems to be related, to a large extent, to structural remodeling, usually referred to as reverse remodeling of left ventricular (LV) dysfunction. This can lead to amelioration of the arrhythmogenic substrate associated with depressed LV systolic function and heart failure. However, a direct electrophysiological effect due to favorable remodeling of repolarization with reduction of the dispersion of repolarization cannot be ruled out. On the other hand, in a small subgroup of patients, CRT could increase the dispersion of repolarization and induce malignant ventricular tachyarrhythmias. Clinical trials have consistently shown improved outcome with CRT-defibrillators (CRT-D) and more trials have demonstrated the benefits of the defibrillator in the population with depressed LV function. However, some physicians argue that implanting the less expensive and less complicated CRT-pacemaker (CRT-P) may be appropriate in certain groups of patients. Before this position is accepted, it is imperative that criteria for the selection of this group of patients with presumably low risk for sudden arrhythmic death as well as the proarrhythmic effect of CRT be clearly defined.
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- Gioia Turitto
- Cardiac Electrophysiology, New York Methodist Hospital, New York 11215, USA.
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Tzeng YC, Larsen PD, Galletly DC. Mechanism of cardioventilatory coupling: insights from cardiac pacing, vagotomy, and sinoaortic denervation in the anesthetized rat. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2006; 292:H1967-77. [PMID: 17172271 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.01049.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Cardioventilatory coupling (CVC), a temporal alignment between the heartbeat and inspiratory activity, is a major determinant of breath-to-breath variation in observed respiratory rate (f(o)). The cardiac-trigger hypothesis attributes this to adjustments of respiratory timing by baroreceptor afferent impulses to the central respiratory pattern generator. A mathematical model of this hypothesis indicates that apparent CVC in graphical plots of ECG R wave vs. inspiratory time is dependent on the heart rate (HR), the rate of the intrinsic respiratory oscillator (f(i)), and the strength of the hypothetical cardiovascular afferent impulse. Failure to account for HR and f(i) may explain the inconsistent results from previous attempts to identify the neural pathways involved in CVC. Cognizant of these interactions, we factored in the HR-to-f(i) ratio in our examination of the role of the vagus nerve and arterial baroreceptors in CVC by cardiac pacing 29 anesthetized Sprague-Dawley rats and incrementally changing the HR. With the assumption of a relatively constant f(i), CVC could be examined across a range of HR-to-f(o) ratios before and after vagotomy, sinoaortic denervation, and vagotomy + sinoaortic denervation. We confirmed the relation between CVC, HR-to-f(o) ratio, and breath-to-breath respiratory period variability and demonstrated the loss of these relations after baroreceptor elimination. Sham experiments (n = 8) showed that these changes were not due to surgical stress. Our data support the notion that inspiratory timing can be influenced by cardiac afferent activity. We conclude that the putative cardiovascular input arises from the arterial baroreceptors and that the vagus nerve is not critical for CVC.
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- Y C Tzeng
- Department of Surgery and Anaesthesia, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wellington, New Zealand.
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Greco OT, Bittencourt LRA, Vargas RNA, Borges MA, Mateos JCP, Neto AC, Coelho ODC, Silva RS, Mazzo RA, Melatto DMB, Tufik S, Gauch PRA. Sleep Parameters in Patients Using Pacemakers with Sleep Rate Function on. PACING AND CLINICAL ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY: PACE 2006; 29:135-41. [PMID: 16492297 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2006.00306.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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INTRODUCTION The cardiovascular system (CVS) is heavily influenced by the autonomic nervous system. Additionally, there is a functional alteration during the various stages of sleep. In nonrapid eye movement (NREM), a state of cardiovascular relaxation occurs during stages three and four. A large amount of rapid ocular movements is concentrated in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. During this phase, fluctuations in arterial pressure (AP) and heart rate (HR) can be readily noted. Sleep disordered breathing (SDB) has been associated with cardiac rhythm disorders. Recently, cardiac rhythm disorder treatment with pacemaker (PM) highlighted a reduction in abnormal respiratory events during sleep. OBJECTIVE Comparison of sleep parameters of patients using PM with a sleep rate (SR) algorithm based on its rate-modulated capability during physical activity (Integrity PM with SR function on and off). METHODS Twenty-two patients (14 women, 8 men), implanted with an Integrity PM (St. Jude Medical Cardiac Rhythm Management Division, Sylmar, CA) with SR function for standard clinical indications, were evaluated utilizing a double-blind protocol. The indication for pacing included sinus node disease (SND), atrium ventricular blockage (AVB), and atrial fibrillation (AF). Following randomization, half of our patients had SR function switched to "on" mode while the other half were on "off" mode. During the first stage of the protocol, all patients underwent two consecutive nights of polysomnographic sleep recordings (PSG). During the first night patients slept in the sleep lab only for adaptation purpose. PSG full recording was carried out in the subsequent night. At a later stage, the programing of SR functions was shifted to "on" or "off" modes. One week later, a third assessment was undertaken. RESULTS Twelve patients (54%) showed sleep efficiency improvement (total sleeping time/recording time) with PM SR on. This group had the least effective sleep efficiency with PM off, if compared with the others who highlighted no change in this sleep parameter (72 +/- 12 vs 81 +/- 7%, P = 0.01, respectively). This first group displayed a lower latency for REM sleep than the last one (89 +/- 55 vs 174 +/- 107 minutes, P = 0.01, respectively). In 11 (50%) patients, the number per sleep hour of microarousals was reduced when PM SR was switched on. When we compared such findings to the group whose parameters had not changed, we noted that the first set of patients were sleepier (ESE: 9 +/- 4 vs 5 +/- 5, P = 0.04, respectively), and showed more microarousals with PM SR off (20 +/- 14 vs 7 +/- 5 microarousal/hour, P = 0.007). CONCLUSION In PM patients with sleep-related issues, the SR function activation improved sleep both from a qualitative and quantitative perspective.
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- Oswaldo T Greco
- Department of Cardiology, Medical School of São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
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Martí Almor J, Félez Flor M, Balcells E, Cladellas M, Broquetas J, Bruguera J. Prevalencia del síndrome de apnea obstructiva del sueño en pacientes con disfunción sinusal. Rev Esp Cardiol 2006. [DOI: 10.1157/13083646] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Movahed MR, Jalili M, Kiciman N. Cardiovascular Abnormalities and Arrhythmias in Patients with Ondine's Curse (Congenital Central Hypoventilation) Syndrome. PACING AND CLINICAL ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY: PACE 2005; 28:1226-30. [PMID: 16359292 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2005.50194.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Patients with congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS) (Ondine's curse syndrome) have impaired autonomic control of ventilation with intact voluntary control of respiration. Autonomic dysfunction and cardiac abnormalities are common in CCHS. Bradyarrhythmias are life-threatening and often require pacemaker insertion. We presented a case of a patient with CCHS suffering from long sinus pauses requiring cardiac pacemaker insertion. Patients with CCHS are at risk for pulmonary hypertension and cor pulmonale secondary to chronic hypoxia. Diaphragmatic pacing has been beneficial in some patients with CCHS. In this article, we review concomitant cardiac abnormalities and the occurrence of bradyarrhythmias in patients with CCHS.
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- Mohammad-Reza Movahed
- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of California, Irvine, USA.
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This article reviews controversies in cardiac pacing in four areas: methods to prevent unnecessary right ventricular pacing and optimal ventricular pacing sites in the bradycardia population, pacing for prevention of atrial fibrillation (AF), a novel pacing technique for the treatment of heart failure, and pacing for the treatment of sleep apnea. Frequent right ventricular pacing has been reported to increase the incidence of AF and congestive heart failure. However, many patients with pacemakers for bradycardia have intrinsic atrioventricular conduction most of the time. Optimal programming of pacemakers and new algorithms designed to reduce unnecessary ventricular pacing are discussed. Pacing algorithms for prevention of AF have generally been shown to be ineffective. Atrial antitachycardia pacing has been shown to reduce the burden of atrial tachyarrhythmias in selected patients. Cardiac contractility modulation has recently been reported to be a promising new approach to the treatment of heart failure. Some pacing techniques may be effective in the treatment of sleep apnea but larger, long-term clinical trials are required to demonstrate a significant clinical benefit.
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- Anne M Gillis
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, HSC Room 1634, 3330 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada.
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Unterberg C, Lüthje L, Szych J, Vollmann D, Hasenfuss G, Andreas S. Atrial overdrive pacing compared to CPAP in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome. Eur Heart J 2005; 26:2568-75. [PMID: 16126716 DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehi448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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AIMS Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is associated with oxygen desaturation, blood pressure increase, and neurohumoral activation, resulting in possible detrimental effects on the cardiovascular system. Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is the therapy of choice for OSA. In a recent study, nocturnal atrial overdrive pacing (pacing) reduced the severity of sleep apnoea in pacemaker patients. We compared the effects of CPAP with those of pacing in patients with OSA but without pacemaker indication or clinical signs of heart failure. METHODS AND RESULTS Ten patients with OSA on CPAP therapy were studied for three nights by polysomnography. During the nights that followed a night without any treatment (baseline), the patients were treated with CPAP or pacing in a random order. Pacing was performed with a temporary pacing lead. The pacing frequency was 15 b.p.m. higher than the baseline heart rate. The apnoea-hypopnoea index was 41.0 h(-1) (12.0-66.6) at baseline and was significantly lower during CPAP [2.2 h(-1) (0.3-12.4)] compared with pacing [39.1 h(-1) (8.2-78.5)]. Furthermore, duration and quality of sleep were significantly improved during CPAP when compared with pacing. CONCLUSION Nocturnal atrial overdrive pacing is no alternative therapeutic strategy to CPAP for the treatment of OSA in patients without clinical signs of heart failure and without conventional indication for anti-bradycardia pacing.
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- Christina Unterberg
- Department of Cardiology and Pneumology, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Robert-Koch-Str. 40, D-37099 Göttingen, Germany
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Lüthje L, Unterberg-Buchwald C, Dajani D, Vollmann D, Hasenfuss G, Andreas S. Atrial Overdrive Pacing in Patients with Sleep Apnea with Implanted Pacemaker. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2005; 172:118-22. [PMID: 15750043 DOI: 10.1164/rccm.200409-1258oc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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RATIONALE Atrial overdrive pacing markedly improved sleep-disordered breathing in a recent study. OBJECTIVES Using a single-blind, randomized, crossover design, we aimed to reproduce these findings and investigate the possible underlying mechanisms. METHODS Twenty ambulatory patients with an implanted pacemaker or cardioverter defibrillator were studied by polysomnography on 3 consecutive nights in a randomized, single-blind, crossover study in which devices were programmed for nonpacing or for overdrive pacing at 7 or 15 beats/minute faster than the mean nocturnal heart rate. Ventilation and biomarkers (urinary norepinephrine excretion, amino-terminal portion of the precursor of brain natriuretic peptide, or NT-proBNP, were also evaluated. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS Neither the primary endpoint apnea-hypopnea index, nor the apnea index, oxygen desaturation, ventilation, or biomarkers were affected by the nocturnal atrial overdrive pacing. A small, clinically insignificant, rate-dependent reduction in the hypopnea index was evoked by pacing (nonpacing, 13.4 +/- 1.4; pacing 7, 12.9 +/- 1.4; pacing 15, 10.9 +/- 1.0; p < 0.01, analysis of variance). CONCLUSIONS The lack of effect on the apnea-hypopnea index means that atrial overdrive pacing is inappropriate for treating sleep-disordered breathing.
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- Lars Lüthje
- Herzzentrum Göttingen, Abteilung Kardiologie und Pneumologie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Robert-Koch-Strasse 40, 37075 Göttingen, Germany
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Scharf C, Cho YK, Bloch KE, Brunckhorst C, Duru F, Balaban K, Foldvary N, Liu L, Burgess RC, Candinas R, Wilkoff BL. Diagnosis of sleep-related breathing disorders by visual analysis of transthoracic impedance signals in pacemakers. Circulation 2004; 110:2562-7. [PMID: 15492313 DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.0000145540.36097.eb] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND Minute ventilation sensors of cardiac pacemakers measure ventilation by means of transthoracic impedance changes between the pacemaker case and the electrode tip. We investigated whether this technique might detect sleep-related breathing disorders. METHODS AND RESULTS In 22 patients, analog waveforms of the transthoracic impedance signal measured by the pacemaker minute ventilation sensor over the course of a night were visualized, scored for apnea/hypopnea events, and compared with simultaneous polysomnography. Analysis of transthoracic impedance signals correctly identified the presence or absence of moderate to severe sleep apnea (apnea/hypopnea index, AHI >20 h(-1)) in all patients (receiver operating characteristics, ROC=1.0). The ROC for AHI scores of > or =5 h(-1) and > or =10 h(-1) showed an area under the curve of 0.95, P<0.005, and 0.97, P<0.0001, respectively. Accuracy over time assessed by comparing events per 5-minute epochs was high (Cronbach alpha reliability coefficient, 0.85; intraclass correlation, 0.73). Event-by-event comparison within +/-15 seconds revealed agreement in 81% (kappa, 0.77; P<0.001). CONCLUSIONS Detection of apnea/hypopnea events by pacemaker minute ventilation sensors is feasible and accurate compared with laboratory polysomnography. This technique might be useful to screen and monitor sleep-related breathing disorders in pacemaker patients.
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- Christoph Scharf
- Cardiovascular Center, University Hospital Zurich, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology and Pneumology, Rämistrasse 100, CH-8091 Zürich, Switzerland.
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