Rapid atrial pacing above the maximum sensor rate: a case report
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Abstract Background While ventricular-based timing modes are known to cause elevated atrial pacing above the lower rate when intrinsic atrioventricular (AV) conduction is shorter than programmed AV delay, there is one case report in 2015 by Jafri et al. where rapid atrial pacing was induced in an Abbott device set DDI with a lower rate of 90 by an unsensed premature atrial complex and slow intrinsic AV conduction allowing pacemaker ‘crossover.’ Case summary We present a very unusual case of rapid atrial pacing at >180 b.p.m. due to a perfect storm of events that we believe has not been previously reported. A patient with a St. Jude Abbott DCPPM set DDDR had an atrial tachyarrhythmia causing a mode switch to DDIR, which uses ventricular-based timing. This was followed by a period of rapid atrial pacing that terminated spontaneously. Discussion This phenomenon depended on an initial atrial tachyarrhythmia causing a mode switch to DDIR. In addition, the set lower rate would not have led to a short enough calculated ventriculo-atrial interval (VAI), but because rate responsive pacing was enabled, the calculated VAI was short enough to promote the crossover in setting of slow AV conduction and allow the rapid atrial pacing. Understanding this unique mechanism requires careful attention to pacemaker timing cycles and appreciation of the limitations of device programming. While it appears that a similar phenomenon was reported once in the literature, we believe that this episode of…
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