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A total of 1,431 patients (mean age 63.4 +/- 14.1) with pacemakers (96.2% VVI) primoimplanted between 1967 and 1985 were followed for a mean duration of 78.2 +/- 40 pacing months, with 0.6% loss to follow-up. Cumulative survival for 1, 3, and 10 years was 0.9427, 0.9136, and 0.7536, respectively. There was no significant difference in survival between atrioventricular block (AVB) and sick sinus syndrome (SSS) patients. In addition to age and gender, factors existent prior to implantation that independently affected prognosis included manifest coronary heart disease (CHD), congenital/acquired heart lesions, heart failure, noncardiac internal disease, syncope, and generalized fatigue. After implantation, the most important factor was generalized fatigue, then age, stroke, myocardial infarct (MI), gender (male), heart failure, and syncope. Patients with no underlying disease showed an extremely high cumulative survival (0.9173 at 10 years). Compared to the general population of Yugoslavia, the pacemaker patients showed a similar yearly mortality rate until 1981. After that, elderly males (70+) had a significantly lower yearly mortality than the matched population. Thus, in this large series of pacemaker patients followed into the most recent period with an extremely low loss to follow-up, short- and long-term survival was very high. Pacemaker patients of any age who are otherwise in good health have an excellent prognosis.
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PMID:Survival in 1,431 pacemaker patients: prognostic factors and comparison with the general population. 137 12

Thirty-eight patients (ages 40 to 77 years, mean 63) followed in a pacemaker clinic underwent exercise treadmill tests to determine chronotropic incompetence. There were 28 men and 10 women. Twenty-seven patients had atrioventricular (AV) block and 11 patients had sick sinus syndrome. All patients were exercised to fatigue. None of the patients were receiving beta-blockers or other drugs that could reduce heart rate. Maximum heart rate (MHR) and percent predicted maximum heart rate (% PMHR) were used as an index of chronotropic incompetence. Chronotropic incompetence was defined as inability to achieve a % PMHR of greater than 80%. The overall incidence of chronotropic incompetence was 58% (22 of 38 patients). We examined the relationship between chronotropic incompetence and the time to pacemaker implantation. We found that in patients who had pacemakers for less than 2 years, the mean MHR was 125 +/- 21.6 beats/min compared with 111.9 +/- 23.6 beats/min for patients who had pacemakers implanted for longer than 4 years. Similarly, the mean % PMHR decreased from 76.5 +/- 12.5% to 68.7 +/- 15.4% in patients with pacemakers less than 2 years versus those with pacemakers for more than 4 years. Fifty-three percent of the patients with a pacemaker less than 2 years old were chronotropic incompetent versus 70% of the patients with a pacemaker more than 4 years old. These data suggest that chronotropic incompetence worsens with time after pacemaker implant. To further support this, eight patients with AV block underwent a second stress test an average of 2 years following the first.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Chronotropic incompetence: a common and progressive finding in pacemaker patients. 157 36

Sick sinus syndrome (SSS) is usually a disease of the elderly produced by idiopathic degeneration of the sinoatrial node. Its initial manifestations range from asymptomatic to nonspecific and include palpitations, fatigue, confusion, and even syncope and sudden death. Electrocardiographic evidence of SSS includes inappropriate sinus bradycardia, sinus pause or arrest, or sinus exit block. These bradyarrhythmias may alternate with tachyarrhythmias, especially atrial fibrillation, to create the tachycardia-bradycardia syndrome. The diagnosis of SSS may be established by electrocardiography or ambulatory monitoring in the majority of cases. Medications such as digoxin, beta-blockers, and calcium blockers may initiate or worsen the manifestations of SSS. Permanent pacing is indicated for symptomatic bradyarrhythmias. Progression of SSS is mostly dependent on the presence and severity of associated coronary or hypertensive heart disease.
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PMID:Update on sick sinus syndrome, a cardiac disorder of aging. 240 55

Twenty-three elderly patients underwent treadmill exercise testing to fatigue; 11 patients had sick sinus syndrome (7 males, 4 females; age range 71-91 years; mean, 78 years); 12 elderly persons were controls (5 males, 7 females; age range 70-93 years; mean, 76 years). All were euthyroid. The study showed that patients with sick sinus syndrome compared with the control group demonstrated a lower resting heart rate, a smaller increase in heart rate during exercise, poorer exercise tolerance, and differences in heart rate during the recovery phase. The value of the effort test in relation to the diagnosis of sick sinus syndrome is discussed, together with its possible implications in the choice of pacemaker.
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PMID:Exercise testing in the diagnosis of sick sinus syndrome in the elderly: implications for treatment. 244 68

19 cases of pacemaker syndrome were observed in 121 patients implanted with VVI pacemakers. The main manifestations of pacemaker syndrome were dizziness, lightheadedness, fatigue, hypotension and congestive cardiac failure after permanent ventricular pacing. The incidence of pacemaker syndrome was 20% in patients with sick sinus syndrome and 13.2% with A-V block. Pacemaker ECG showed retrograde ventriculoatrial conduction in 25 of 121 cases. Among these patients, 14 (56%) had pacemaker syndrome, while only 5 of 96 cases without ventriculoatrial conduction had this syndrome, so the incidence of the two groups were quite different, P less than 0.0001. The frequency of ventriculoatrial conduction in patients with sick sinus syndrome was higher than in patients with A-V block (16/45 vs 9/76, P less than 0.05). The electrophysiologic study were performed in 17 cases before PM implantation. 3 cases had 170-190 ms ventriculoatrial 1:1 conduction. Retrograde ventriculoatrial conduction in pacemaker ECG were present during ventricular pacing in all of them.
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PMID:[Pacemaker syndrome and retrograde ventriculoatrial conduction]. 262 75

Three patients with symptomatic sinus bradycardia due to sick sinus syndrome were treated with permanent ventricular pacing for periods ranging from 2.5 to 4 years. All three patients had ventriculo-atrial conduction on routine electrocardiography. Although ventricular pacing was effective, they complained of fatigue, lightheadedness, and near syncope. Hemodynamic studies revealed the presence of regular cannon waves in the right atrium as well as in the pulmonary artery wedge pressure curves. Temporary atrial pacing resulted in disappearance of the cannon waves and a significant rise in cardiac output (32-48%). After normal atrio-ventricular conduction was confirmed by rapid atrial stimulation and His bundle electrocardiography, the pacing mode was changed to permanent atrial pacing on demand. The effort tolerance of the patients markedly improved, and the previously mentioned symptoms disappeared. Control hemodynamic studies 9 to 12 months after implantation of the atrial demand pacemaker showed that the improvement in cardiac performance was maintained.
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PMID:Chronic ventricular pacing with ventriculo-atrial conduction versus atrial pacing in three patients with symptomatic sinus bradycardia. 617 83

Using His-bundle-electrography and programmed atrial stimulation the effects of different catecholamines (dopamine, dobutamine, orciprenaline), parasympatholytics like atropine, ipratropiumbromide and the xanthine derivative aminophylline have been studied on the conduction system of the human heart in 119 patients with and without different disturbances of rhythm. In contrast to dopamine a moderate effect was found by dobutamine (3 or 6 micrograms/kg/min) in patients with sinus node dysfunction and delayed AV-conduction. In comparison it must by pointed out, that orciprenaline has the greatest positive dromotropic and chronotropic effect on sinus and AV-node. No effect was seen by these catecholamines on electrophysiological properties of the atrium and the intraventricular conduction (HPS). Particularly the fatigue-phenomenon of the Tawara-fibers were not influenced. 0,24 g aminophylline has only a minimal electrophysiological effect, only the sino-atrial conduction time was shortened significantly. The parasympathomimetic agents atropine (1,0; 2 mg i.v.) and ipratropiumbromide (0,5; 1 mg i.v.) are able to improve the sinuatrial and AV-dysfunction. In some patients, however, paradoxical effects were seen in patients with sick sinus syndrome. The refractory periods of the HPS were not influenced - otherwise a secondary impulse - generator was accelerated, which seems to indicate that the AV-node is localized in the NH-region.
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PMID:[Cardiac electrophysiologic effect of various catecholamines and parasympatholytic agents]. 717 68

Twenty-one patients (mean age 68 +/- 8 years) with dual-sensor (QT+activity) DDDR pacemaker were randomly assigned to a crossover, double-blind study in order to evaluate their quality-of-life scores. All pacemakers were implanted for sick sinus syndrome (8 patients) or complete heart block (13 patients). The pacemakers were randomly programmed to VVIR or DDD pacing modes for 2-week periods and then the pacing mode was switched for another 2-week period. At the end of each period, the quality-of-life was evaluated by a questionnaire with regard to cardiovascular symptoms, physical activity, psychosocial and emotional functioning, and self-perceived health. Nineteen questions were scored 0-5 points each. Significant improvement in the mean total quality-of-life score (20.5 +/- 14.9 vs 34.8 +/- 17.4) as well as in dyspnea on effort, dizzy spells, palpitation, sweating, fatigue, lethargy, emotional functioning, and self-perceived health was observed during DDD compared to VVIR pacing. No question was scored in favor of VVIR pacing mode. Significant improvements during DDD pacing was demonstrated in all subgroups of patients (sick sinus syndrome, chronotropically competent and incompetent patients, and patients with high degree AV block). Eighteen patients preferred DDD pacing mode, while only one preferred VVIR pacing mode. Two remaining patients expressed no preference. The results suggest that DDD pacing offers better quality-of-life than dual sensor VVIR pacing in all subgroups of patients commonly indicated for pacemaker implantation.
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PMID:Quality-of-life during DDD and dual sensor VVIR pacing. 784 78

Atrial tachycardias, in particular atrial flutter after surgery for congenital heart disease, is associated with a high mortality. Treatment with various antiarrhythmic drugs and/or antitachycardia pacemakers is not very successful. Sotalol, a Class III drug, has shown to be a promising drug in adults with atrial tachycardias. However, the experience with sotalol in children after surgery for congenital heart disease is limited. Therefore, we describe our results here. Between December 1990 and February 1997, 26 children with atrial tachycardias, most of them with atrial flutter or fibrillation (n = 20), after surgery for congenital heart disease were treated with sotalol orally. The age of the children at the start of treatment was 7.5 +/- 5.8 years (mean +/- SD). The time interval between surgery and the start of atrial tachycardia ranged from 1 day to 14.3 years (3.8 +/- 3.8 years). Conversion to sinus rhythm was achieved in 16 out of 22 hemodynamically stable children with a dosage of 4.0 +/- 1.6 mg/kg per day. The six children without sinus rhythm on sotalol and four hemodynamically unstable patients were treated prophylactically with sotalol after DC cardioversion for their tachycardias. Two children complained of mild transient fatigue. Heart rate decreased during therapy (95 +/- 33 vs 81 +/- 21 beats/min; P = 0.01). QTc-intervals did not change. Proarrhythmias such as torsades de pointes were not encountered. Two children with a preexistent sick sinus syndrome showed aggravation of bradycardia and needed pacemaker implantation. The percentage of children with a recurrence-free interval of 1 and 2 years was 96% and 81%, respectively, for all atrial tachycardias, and 92% and 66% for atrial flutter. The recurrences of atrial tachycardias during the follow-up period, which ranged from 0.1-6.1 years (2.5 +/- 1.8 years) could be treated with only an increase of the dosage of sotalol in all but one patient. We conclude that sotalol is an effective drug for the treatment and prevention of atrial tachycardia in children after surgery for congenital heart disease.
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PMID:Sotalol for atrial tachycardias after surgery for congenital heart disease. 927 23

We report a family in which the mother and her three sons suffered sick sinus syndrome and strabismus. Two members had a persistent left superior vena cava with drainage into coronary sinus. The illness in all members of this family was oligosymptomatic, and well tolerated with mild symptoms like dizziness, fatigue and exercise dyspnea associated with nodal rhythm. Three of them, had episodes of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. All patients remain asymptomatic after pacemaker implantation.
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PMID:[Familial sick sinus syndrome associated to strabismus and persistent left superior vena cava]. 1097 40


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