Importance of the pacing mode in the initiation of ventricular tachyarrhythmia in a canine model of chronic myocardial infarction

The use of unipolar anodal or bipolar pacing, as compared with unipolar cathodal pacing, purportedly increases the likelihood of inducing inadvertent ventricular fibrillation in susceptible patients. In this study, the ability to initiate sustained ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation with unipolar cathodal, unipolar anodal and bipolar pacing modes was compared using programmed ventricular stimulation at 82 subendocardial periinfarction sites in 11 dogs with chronic myocardial infarction. The late diastolic excitability threshold was significantly higher and the ventricular refractory period was significantly shorter (p less than 0.001) with anodal pacing (mean 0.62 mA, 156 ms, respectively) than with pacing in either the cathodal (0.12 mA, 174 ms) or the bipolar (0.13 mA, 173 ms) mode. At a current intensity twice that of the excitability threshold, the introduction of one or two extrastimuli induced ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation comparably among the three pacing modes. However, when three extrastimuli were used, ventricular fibrillation was induced with anodal pacing twice as frequently (50 [61%] of 82 sites) as with either of the other two pacing modes (each 23 [28%] of 82 sites, p less than 0.001), whereas the induction of ventricular tachycardia remained comparable with anodal pacing (15 [18%] of 82 sites) and cathodal and bipolar pacing (each 14 [17%] of 82 sites). Furthermore, a similarly high incidence of inducibility of ventricular fibrillation was observed with both cathodal pacing (56 [68%] of 82 sites) and bipolar pacing (40 [49%] of 82 sites) when an increased current equal to twice the anodal excitability threshold (1.23 mA) was used.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)     

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