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- Title
Acute Autonomic Engagement Assessed by Heart Rate Dynamics During Vagus Nerve Stimulation in Patients With Heart Failure in the ANTHEM-HF Trial.
- Authors
NEARING, BRUCE D.; LIBBUS, IMAD; AMURTHUR, BADRI; KENKNIGHT, BRUCE H.; VERRIER, RICHARD L.
- Abstract
Acute Heart Rate Dynamics During VNS Background Chronic vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) applied to produce biomimetic levels of parasympathetic activation is feasible, well tolerated, safe, improves left ventricular ejection fraction, NYHA class, heart rate variability, and baroreflex function, and reduces T-wave alternans (TWA) in patients with chronic heart failure. However, the acute effects of VNS on beat-to-beat heart rate dynamics have not been systematically characterized in humans. Methods and Results We evaluated acute effects of VNS on R-R-interval dynamics during the VNS titration period in patients (n = 59) enrolled in ANTHEM-HF trial by quantifying effects during continuous cyclic VNS (14-seconds on-time, 66-seconds off-time) adjusted to the maximum tolerable dose without excessive (<4 bpm) bradycardia during the 10-week titration period. VNS elicited an immediate change in heart rate that was correlated to VNS current amplitude, pulse width, and frequency. Heart rate decreased more in the 28 patients with right-sided stimulation (-2.22 ± 0.13 bpm) than in the 31 patients with left-sided stimulation (-0.60 ± 0.08 bpm, P < 0.001). The linear correlation between stimulus intensity and lengthening of the R-R interval was stronger among the 28 patients with right-sided VNS implantation (r = 0.88, P < 0.0001) than among the 31 patients with left-sided VNS implantation (r = 0.49, P < 0.002). In all patients, the heart rate change elicited by VNS was significantly greater than the change during the same timing intervals in 10 randomly selected patients without stimulation (+0.08 ± 0.06 bpm, P < 0.001). Conclusion Instantaneous heart rate change during therapeutic levels of VNS in patients with heart failure indicates consistent modulation of the autonomic nervous system for both left- and right-sided stimulation.
- Subjects
UNITED States; HEART failure treatment; ALGORITHMS; AUTONOMIC nervous system; CLINICAL medicine research; CONFIDENCE intervals; ELECTRIC stimulation; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRODES; HEART beat; HEART rate monitoring; ARTIFICIAL implants; STATISTICAL sampling; T-test (Statistics); VAGUS nerve; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, 2016, Vol 27, Issue 9, p1072
- ISSN
1045-3873
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jce.13017