Joern Schmitt, Till Althoff, Sonia Busch, K R Julian Chun, Tillman Dahme, Micaela Ebert, Heidi Estner, Melanie Gunawardene, Christian Heeger, Leon Iden, Henning Jansen, Victoria Johnson, Tilman Maurer, Andreas Rillig, Sascha Rolf, Philipp Sommer, Daniel Steven, Richard Roland Tilz, David Duncker
{"title":"[Left bundle branch (area) pacing: lead positioning and implant criteria-step for step].","authors":"Joern Schmitt, Till Althoff, Sonia Busch, K R Julian Chun, Tillman Dahme, Micaela Ebert, Heidi Estner, Melanie Gunawardene, Christian Heeger, Leon Iden, Henning Jansen, Victoria Johnson, Tilman Maurer, Andreas Rillig, Sascha Rolf, Philipp Sommer, Daniel Steven, Richard Roland Tilz, David Duncker","doi":"10.1007/s00399-024-01060-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00399-024-01060-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Left bundle branch area pacing is currently the most common form of physiological pacing prior to His bundle pacing. It is intended to prevent or correct the development of pacemaker-induced cardiomyopathy and is being used more and more frequently. In order to be able to perform this successfully, knowledge regarding the specific anatomy and radiological anatomy as well as the ECG criteria for left bundle branch pacing is required in addition to knowledge of the tools. In this article, the technical requirements and steps for successful implantation are summarized and pitfalls are highlighted.</p>","PeriodicalId":52403,"journal":{"name":"Herzschrittmachertherapie und Elektrophysiologie","volume":" ","pages":"82-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11882732/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142774135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Victoria Johnson, Carlos Antepara, Reza Wakili, Jörn Schmitt
{"title":"[Physiological pacing and heart failure : Hope or hype?]","authors":"Victoria Johnson, Carlos Antepara, Reza Wakili, Jörn Schmitt","doi":"10.1007/s00399-025-01070-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00399-025-01070-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The cornerstone of heart failure treatment consists of a four pillar drug therapy. Patients with existing heart failure and complete left bundle branch block, or patients with an indication for pacemaker therapy for bradycardia and heart failure, benefit from physiological stimulation. For patients with left bundle branch block and severely impaired left ventricular systolic pump function (HFrEF), cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) has so far been the gold standard. However, it is now increasingly possible to stimulate the conduction system directly using new forms of stimulation and to achieve similar clinical results. At present, left bundle branch area pacing (LBBAP) is the form of stimulation most frequently investigated in clinical studies. A special situation arises in the case of pacemaker-induced cardiomyopathy with right ventricular apical pacing. Here, LBBAP is certainly a beacon of hope.</p>","PeriodicalId":52403,"journal":{"name":"Herzschrittmachertherapie und Elektrophysiologie","volume":" ","pages":"21-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143450938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Harilaos Bogossian, Sebastian Robl, Bernd Lemke, Konstantinos Iliodromitis
{"title":"[Mobitz or Wenckebach, that is the question].","authors":"Harilaos Bogossian, Sebastian Robl, Bernd Lemke, Konstantinos Iliodromitis","doi":"10.1007/s00399-025-01072-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00399-025-01072-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52403,"journal":{"name":"Herzschrittmachertherapie und Elektrophysiologie","volume":" ","pages":"78-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143442539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cardiac strangulation by epicardial pacing wires in adults.","authors":"S Serge Barold, Carsten W Israel","doi":"10.1007/s00399-024-01061-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00399-024-01061-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Like children, adult patients with active or abandoned epicardial pacing leads are also at risk of developing life-threatening cardiac ischemia due to mechanical compression of the coronary arteries. As this complication is amenable to surgical removal, these patients require periodic evaluation for myocardial ischemia even if they are asymptomatic.</p>","PeriodicalId":52403,"journal":{"name":"Herzschrittmachertherapie und Elektrophysiologie","volume":" ","pages":"75-77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142980719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Heiko Burger, Bernd Nowak, Uwe Wiegand, Carsten Israel, Bernd Lemke, Christof Kolb, Andreas Hain, Andreas Markewitz
{"title":"[Annual report 2022 of the German pacemaker and defibrillator registry-part 2: implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD)].","authors":"Heiko Burger, Bernd Nowak, Uwe Wiegand, Carsten Israel, Bernd Lemke, Christof Kolb, Andreas Hain, Andreas Markewitz","doi":"10.1007/s00399-024-01063-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00399-024-01063-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52403,"journal":{"name":"Herzschrittmachertherapie und Elektrophysiologie","volume":" ","pages":"52-69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143016061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Interfaces in cardiology : How rhythmologists and heart failure specialists work together to improve the prognosis].","authors":"Arian Sultan, Julia Vogler","doi":"10.1007/s00399-025-01075-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00399-025-01075-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52403,"journal":{"name":"Herzschrittmachertherapie und Elektrophysiologie","volume":" ","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143484693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mitteilungen aus der Arbeitsgruppe Elektrophysiologie und Rhythmologie (AGEP).","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s00399-025-01069-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00399-025-01069-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52403,"journal":{"name":"Herzschrittmachertherapie und Elektrophysiologie","volume":"36 1","pages":"101-102"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143558631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David Duncker, Henrike A K Hillmann, Johanna Müller-Leisse
{"title":"[Remote monitoring for patients with cardiac implantable electronic devices and heart failure].","authors":"David Duncker, Henrike A K Hillmann, Johanna Müller-Leisse","doi":"10.1007/s00399-024-01062-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00399-024-01062-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The digitalization in healthcare facilitates continuous monitoring of relevant medical parameters through internal and external sensors. For patients with heart failure and cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs), telemedicine has the potential to improve patient care and reduce use of healthcare resources. Remote monitoring shortens the response time to a clinical event, reduces inappropriate shocks, and increases patient satisfaction. Despite some limitations, remote monitoring therefore represents a valuable addition to regular outpatient follow-up care.</p>","PeriodicalId":52403,"journal":{"name":"Herzschrittmachertherapie und Elektrophysiologie","volume":" ","pages":"28-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142985333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Arrhythmias education-current considerations with a focus on ECG teaching].","authors":"Tobias Raupach","doi":"10.1007/s00399-024-01057-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00399-024-01057-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In order to achieve favorable learning outcomes in medical students and residents, the development of educational interventions should be guided by specific principles. This article presents readers with a short summary of Kern's six-step approach to curriculum development before discussing results of medical education research with a focus on ECG teaching. A number of consecutive studies concluded that the choice of instructional format is less important for student learning outcome than examination consequences. Thus, if the final examination is summative (i.e., graded), students achieve higher scores regardless of the instructional method employed-even in the absence of formal teaching. Formative examinations are associated with considerably worse learning outcomes; however, they facilitate the detection of differences in effectiveness between various instructional formats. Follow-up data indicate that the loss of ECG interpretation skills is greater following a summative exam compared with a formative exam. In summary, while summative exams result in a short-term performance increase as they create a strong incentive to learn, they do not guarantee superior long-term retention. This begs the question which learning objectives can and should actually be covered in undergraduate and continuing medical education. The article concludes with a set of recommendations for the development of teaching interventions on heart rhythm disorders.</p>","PeriodicalId":52403,"journal":{"name":"Herzschrittmachertherapie und Elektrophysiologie","volume":" ","pages":"91-95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142774628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Heiko Burger, Bernd Nowak, Uwe Wiegand, Carsten Israel, Bernd Lemke, Christof Kolb, Andreas Hain, Andreas Markewitz
{"title":"[Annual report 2022 of the German pacemaker and defibrillator registry-part 1: pacemakers].","authors":"Heiko Burger, Bernd Nowak, Uwe Wiegand, Carsten Israel, Bernd Lemke, Christof Kolb, Andreas Hain, Andreas Markewitz","doi":"10.1007/s00399-024-01059-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00399-024-01059-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52403,"journal":{"name":"Herzschrittmachertherapie und Elektrophysiologie","volume":" ","pages":"34-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142803118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}