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Erschienen in: Heart Failure Reviews 3/2011

Open Access 01.05.2011

Mechano-energetics of the asynchronous and resynchronized heart

verfasst von: Frits W. Prinzen, Kevin Vernooy, Bart W. L. DeBoeck, Tammo Delhaas

Erschienen in: Heart Failure Reviews | Ausgabe 3/2011

Abstract

Abnormal electrical activation of the ventricles creates major abnormalities in cardiac mechanics. Local contraction patterns, as reflected by measurements of local strain, are not only out of phase, but often also show opposing length changes in early and late activated regions. As a consequence, the efficiency of cardiac pump function (the amount of stroke work generated by a unit of oxygen consumed) is approximately 30% lower in asynchronous than in synchronous hearts. Moreover, the amount of work performed in myocardial segments becomes considerably larger in late than in early activated regions. Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) improves mechano-energetics of the previously asynchronous heart in various ways: it alleviates impediment of the abnormal contraction on blood flow, it increases myocardial efficiency, it recruits contraction in the previously early activated septum and it creates a more uniform distribution of myocardial blood flow. These factors act together to increase the range of cardiac work that can be delivered by the patients’ heart, an effect that can explain the increased exercise tolerance and quality of life reported in several CRT trials.
Hinweise
An erratum to this article can be found at http://​dx.​doi.​org/​10.​1007/​s10741-011-9227-5

Introduction

Until approximately a decade ago, the mechanical effects of asynchronous electrical activation were almost completely neglected, despite the first evidence for detrimental mechanical effects being published 80 years ago by Wiggers [56]. Nowadays, interest on this issue increases rapidly, related to accumulating evidence of beneficial effects of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) [12, 43] and adverse effects of conventional RV pacing [2, 46, 57].
For proper understanding of the effect of ventricular pacing and CRT, insights into cardiac mechanics and energetics are imperative. After all, mechanical coordination between all muscle fibers determines total pump function as well as the amount of energy required for the contraction. Fortunately, information on cardiac mechanics is rapidly increasing due to the development of dedicated non-invasive imaging techniques for assessment of regional myocardial deformation (strains). Also, modern modalities like PET allow achieving information on cardiac metabolism. While in many studies the sole emphasis is on improving pump function, it may also be important to pay attention to the metabolic economy of the heart. After all, clinical studies have shown the potentially harmful effect of longer lasting increase of myocardial energy expenditure through inotropic drug therapy [35].
In this article, we will discuss cardiac mechanics and energetics during asynchronous and resynchronized activation. To this purpose, we review information from studies in animal experimental models and patients. However, not all concepts and ideas have been verified in large clinical trials.

Electrical activation and electro-mechanical coupling

In the healthy heart, activation of the ventricular wall occurs by impulse conduction through the rapid conduction system. Endings of this system are located in the subendocardium. From there, the impulses are conducted through the slower conducting working myocardium. Accordingly, during normal sinus rhythm in hearts without conduction abnormalities the electrical activation is relatively synchronous (activation of the ventricles occurring within 70 ms). Earliest activation occurs in the LV septal endocardium and latest in the epicardium of the LV lateral wall [19]. This is also depicted in the left upper panel of Fig. 1, derived from measurements of epicardial and endocardial mapping in a canine heart [30].
The normal, physiological sequence of electrical activation is disturbed during ventricular pacing [29, 51] as well as in diseases affecting the ventricular conduction system, like left bundle branch block (LBBB) [3, 41, 50]. Under all these circumstances, the impulse is conducted through the slowly conducting working myocardium, rather than through the rapidly conducting specialized conduction system. As a consequence, the time required for activation of the entire ventricular muscle, for example expressed as QRS duration, is at least twice as long as that during normal sinus rhythm. QRS prolongation by abnormal activation is even greater in patients with ischemic heart disease [51].
Like in any muscle, cardiac contraction is evoked by an action potential. The action potential triggers calcium influx through L-type calcium channels, initiating calcium induced calcium release by the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR). The time needed for transport and binding of calcium, released from the SR, gives rise to a time delay between the depolarization and onset of force development of approximately 30 ms. On a global basis, this delay can be observed as the delay between the R-wave of the ECG and the rise in LV pressure.
Because of this excitation–contraction coupling, it is not surprising that asynchronous electrical activation also leads to asynchronous contraction. In various studies in normal canine heart, the onset of segment shortening proved to be closely related to the timing of electrical activation [5, 37, 59]. Accordingly, regions with earliest electrical activation (blue ellipse in right upper panel of Fig. 1) also start to contract first (blue tracing in lower right panel of Fig. 1).
In order to achieve information on local excitation–contraction coupling, the delay between local electrical activation and strain was measured, often defined as the electro-mechanical (E-M) delay. In normal hearts, this E-M delay amounts approximately 30 ms [37]. With more advanced measurements (MRI tagging) at many sites and in asynchronous ventricles, a linear relation is found between local activation (X) and shortening (Y). The regression line of this relation has an intercept of approximately 20 ms and a slope larger than one [59], indicating that timing differences in shortening are larger than in electrical activation. This larger mechanical asynchrony is presumably explained completely by its definition: the onset of shortening. Recent studies in canine hearts indicate that when the onset of active force generation rather than onset of shortening is used to define mechanical activation, E-M delay is equal throughout the asynchronous heart and directly reflects the timing of electrical activation [42]. This discrepancy between onset of active force generation and onset of shortening is explained by the fact that early activated regions can start to shorten immediately when they are activated, because cavity pressure is low and all other muscle fibers are passive. However, when late-activated regions become activated, other fibers have already started to develop force, thus also increasing cavity pressure. Accordingly, late activated fibers can only start to shorten after developing more force, a process which takes time.
As a consequence of the mechanical interaction between the various regions in the asynchronous heart, strain signals in early and late activated regions do not only show a shift in time, but have a completely different shape (Fig. 1). This implies that asynchronous activation leads to discoordination of contraction. The discoordination is primarily illustrated by early systolic shortening in early activated regions and coincident early systolic stretch in late activated regions. Later in systole, late activated regions show pronounced shortening, while early activated regions may be even stretched [17, 38, 40].
The complicated regional differences in contraction pattern are most likely related to the local differences in myocardial fiber length during the early systolic phase. Fiber length is presumably closely related to sarcomere length, an important determinant of contractile force [47]. In studies using two isolated papillary muscles in series asynchronous stimulation caused a downward shift in the force–velocity relation in the early activated muscle and an upward shift in the late activated one [48]. Therefore, the regional differences in contraction pattern during ventricular pacing are most likely caused by regional differences in effective preload. Accordingly, during ventricular pacing, regional systolic fiber shortening increases with increasing isovolumic stretch [39]. Similarly, a close correlation exists between the time of local electrical activation and the degree of systolic fiber shortening [18] (Fig. 2).

Effect of asynchrony on cardiac energetics

Global left ventricular pump work, generated by the summed action of the myocardial fibers, can be derived from left ventricular pressure–volume loops. Total mechanical work, e.g. external mechanical work and the so-called potential mechanical work, is defined as the pressure–volume area (PVA) which is the area bounded by the pressure–volume trajectory during systole and both the end-systolic and end-diastolic pressure–volume relationship curves [44]. Local mechanical work can be derived from local fiber stress-fiber strain loops (Fig. 3). It is conceivable that local differences in wall motion and deformation during asynchronous electrical activation will be reflected in local differences in myocardial work. This was demonstrated in dogs with epicardial pacing at different sites by construction of local fiber stress-fiber strain diagrams and calculation of local external and total mechanical work analogous to the PVA concept used for the entire LV [17, 40]. Direct measurement of fiber stress using a device damages the local myocardial structure and thereby makes this measurement unreliable. Therefore, fiber stress was estimated using data on LV pressure, LV wall volume, LV cavity volume and regional fiber strain [17, 40]. In regions close to the pacing site, the area of the fiber stress-fiber strain loops is small or even negative, indicating low external work or work being performed on that particular region. In regions remote from the pacing site, the loops are wide and external work can be up to twice that during synchronous ventricular activation (Fig. 3). Total myocardial work (sum of external work and potential energy) is reduced by 50% in early activated regions and is increased by 50% in late activated regions, when compared with the situation during atrial pacing [17, 40].
In light of the considerable mechanical differences between regions, it is not surprising that during asynchronous activation also myocardial blood flow [17, 33, 38, 49, 55], oxygen consumption [17, 28] and glucose uptake differs between regions [33]. When compared to sinus rhythm, myocardial blood flow and oxygen consumption are 30% lower in early activated regions and 30% higher in late activated regions [17, 38, 49, 54]. Interestingly, in asynchronous hearts, regional differences in glucose uptake are larger than the differences in blood flow, suggesting a metabolic adaptation beside the adaptation in perfusion [33].
There are various arguments for the idea that the regional differences in blood flow during ventricular pacing are a physiological adaptation to the differences in mechanical work. A good correlation was found between local mechanical work and oxygen consumption during ventricular pacing [17]. These regional differences disappear during total coronary vasodilation by adenosine [1]. This shows that coronary perfusion is not hampered by abnormal contraction and relaxation patterns. Another argument in favor of matching of demand and supply during asynchronous activation is the fact that septal blood flow after chronic experimental LBBB was reduced without signs of hibernation [55]. Only at higher heart rates, when myocardial perfusion becomes more critical, impairment of blood flow due to the abnormal conduction may play a role [7].

Indices of dyssynchrony and discoordination

In this context, distinction is made between dyssynchrony and discoordination. The term dyssynchrony is commonly used for timing of contraction, as expressed by the timing of onset or peak shortening. Discoordination can be defined as a condition of opposing shortening and stretch within the ventricle. In another article in this issue, it is discussed that measurement of strain provides considerably more reliable prediction of response to CRT than measurement of tissue velocity [27]. However, even better prediction of CRT response is provided by indices that reflect discoordination of contraction. Examples are the circumferential uniformity ratio estimate (CURE) [8], Internal Stretch Fraction (ISF) [23] and Septal Rebound Stretch (SRS) [14]. The CURE index is calculated using Fourier analysis of the strains around the LV circumference as the ratio of the sum of the synchronous segments (S0) and the sum of both dyssynchronous (S1) and synchronous segments over a certain period of the cardiac cycle (such as systole). Calculation of ISF and SRS is depicted in Fig. 4. All these indices quantify the amount of stretch during systole. While the SRS quantifies only the stretch in the septum, the other two relate this stretch to shortening in other regions. All three indices were shown to provide excellent predictions of CRT response in single center studies [8, 14, 23]. Moreover, for ISF and SRS, it was also shown that these variables were reduced to practically zero by application of CRT [14]. In a study using a mathematical model, it was demonstrated that ISF and CURE increase due to asynchronous electrical activation as well as due to dilatation, whereas the timing difference in peak shortening decreased during dilatation [22]. This interaction between dilatation and asynchrony may explain the better prediction of CRT response by the measures of discoordination when compared to the measures of dyssynchrony. A physiological consideration is that these indices quantify the amount of wall deformation that opposes ejection of blood and reflect the absorption of energy generated by other regions. Inherently, this implies that these indices reflect the (in)efficiency of contraction.

Ventricular efficiency

In agreement with the abovementioned thoughts, asynchronous ventricles require more oxygen to generate the same amount of mechanical work, i.e. they have a lower efficiency. In isolated, isovolumically beating hearts, ventricular pacing reduces oxygen consumption and developed LV pressure to the same amount, so that efficiency is not influenced [11]. In anesthetized open-chest [6] and in conscious dogs [34], RV apex pacing decreased mechanical output, whereas myocardial oxygen consumption was unchanged or even increased, when compared to atrial pacing. As a consequence, efficiency decreased by 20–30% in these studies. A similar number has recently been reported by Mills et al., who determined mechanical energy using potential energy and stroke work from pressure volume relations and oxygen consumption by direct measurements [30]. These investigators found a ~30% reduction in efficiency during pacing at the RV apex and RV septum, primarily caused by a reduction in stroke work and increase in oxygen consumption (Fig. 5). This reduction in efficiency was observed briefly after starting RV pacing, but also after 4 months of ventricular pacing, showing the lack of potential of the heart to adapt to this inefficiency. Interestingly, these investigators also showed that pacing at other single sites (LV apex, LV septum) as well as at RV + LV was able to avoid or correct the decrease in efficiency [30]. In the same study, the ~ 30% decrease in efficiency coincided with ISF values of about 30%, suggesting that ISF may provide a mechanical estimation of ventricular efficiency.

Effects of CRT

Electrical and mechanical resynchronization

CRT is predominantly employed to resynchronize ventricles with LBBB or with RV pacing. In these ventricles, activation spreads from the right ventricular wall through the interventricular septum and subsequently to the LV lateral wall. Conceptually, resynchronization can be achieved by creating more than one wavefront of activation. The most common approach is to use biventricular pacing to create two activation wave fronts, preferably originating from opposite walls, in order to create a more synchronous activation than during RV pacing or LBBB. With the tight excitation–contraction coupling in the heart, the more synchronous activation is expected and indeed creates also a more synchronous and more coordinated contraction (Fig. 6). A similar, and sometimes better, effect can be achieved when using LV pacing at an AV-delay that allows fusion of the wavefront originating from the RBB and from the LV pacing site [52].
Figure 6 also shows that in the absence of conduction disturbances, the pattern of contraction during biventricular pacing is less uniform than during right atrial pacing, an abnormality that is accompanied by slightly depressed hemodynamics during biventricular pacing [36, 58]. These data are in agreement with observations in the Pacing Therapies in Congestive Heart Failure (PATH-CHF) trial, which showed that in patients without ventricular dyssynchrony LV pump function does not improve by biventricular pacing, but rather worsens upon starting biventricular pacing [4]. Therefore, while biventricular pacing clearly resynchronizes asynchronous hearts, it may worsen the synchrony and sequence of activation in hearts without conduction block. A recent study in CRT patients showed that in so-called non-responders long-term CRT even leads to worsening of echocardiographic parameters rather than that it did not change them [62]. Similarly, recently presented preliminary data from the MADIT-CRT trial indicate that CRT significantly reduces the combined endpoint hospitalization for heart failure and mortality in patients with LBBB. In contrast, patients with equally wide QRS complex, but with diffuse intraventricular conduction disturbances (so no interventricular asynchrony) proved to encounter a 40% increase in the incidence of heart failure or death [61]. Therefore, the decision to start CRT in a patient should be taken with great care, since unjustified application of CRT may worsen the patients’ condition.

Functional improvements by CRT

Many studies have shown the improvement of parameters of cardiac pump function, such as LVdP/dtmax, pulse pressure, cardiac output and ejection fraction [4, 9, 16], [21] [26, 60]. Such improved systolic pump function is achieved at unchanged or even decreased filling pressures, denoting a true improvement of ventricular contractility through improved coordination of contraction [24]. This is also indicated by a leftward shift of the end-systolic pressure–volume point during CRT [16, 21].
Recent measurements of myocardial strain in patients before and during CRT provide better insight into the mechanism of CRT. DeBoeck et al. [14] demonstrated that CRT does not change the total amount of systolic deformation, but that it redistributes shortening from the LV lateral wall to the septum and decreases systolic stretch (mainly in the septum, see Figs. 1, 3). In Fig. 7, it can be appreciated that the gain in septal shortening is considerably larger than the decrease in LV free wall shortening. These investigators also demonstrated that of the various indices of discoordination, SRS was the most sensitive marker of the mechanical substrate for CRT response [14].
Further improvement in pump function is possibly mediated by reduction of mitral regurgitation [10] and prolongation of diastolic filling time. These beneficial effects occur almost immediately after starting resynchronization [4], [10], but also translate to long-term effects like reverse remodeling as well as better clinical outcome, including better survival. For this article, it is important to note that reverse remodeling consists of reduction of LV dilatation as well as regression of hypertrophy in the most hypertrophied late activated LV lateral wall [53]. This reversal of dilatation and asymmetric hypertrophy appears to be related to the more uniform distribution of myocardial strains and workload in the resynchronized heart [14, 53] (Fig. 7).

Energetic consequences

Because abnormal systolic strains in dyssynchronous hearts are closely related to local energetics, it is reconfirming that upon resynchronization the distribution of blood flow, oxygen consumption and glucose uptake, as studied by PET, becomes more uniform [25, 28, 32, 33] (Fig. 8). The finding that this recovery of blood flow occurs within 2 weeks after onset of CRT [33] and disappears within 15 min after stopping CRT [25] indicates that the perfusion inhomogeneities in the LBBB hearts importantly relate to the abnormal distribution of workload (for example evidenced by the inhomogeneities in strain between septum and later wall). In addition, Knaapen et al. demonstrated that CRT also increases septal blood flow during adenosine infusion [25]. This increase in septal flow was immediately abrogated upon stopping CRT, suggesting that CRT alleviates impediment of perfusion by the abnormal contraction pattern [25]. Furthermore, an increase in hyperemic flow was found to be associated with a decrease in eccentricity of LV hypertrophy, an index of wall stress.
The more uniform distribution of cardiac contraction during CRT also leads to a higher efficiency of the entire LV chamber. Nelson et al. showed elegantly that resynchronization increases LVdP/dtmax while myocardial oxygen consumption even slightly decreased [31]. In these patients, a similar increase in LVdP/dtmax, evoked by dobutamine infusion, significantly increased myocardial oxygen consumption. Therefore, restoration of coordination of contraction by CRT improves cardiac function through a mechanism different from that by inotropic stimulation. The observation that CRT improves ventricular efficiency is important for two reasons. First of all, there is evidence that, in general, failing hearts have a reduced ratio between work performed and oxygen consumed (mechanical efficiency) [45]. Also, these hearts often have compromised energy metabolism, as evidenced by a reduced ratio of phosphocreatine to total ATP [15]. So, any relief of the compromised energy metabolism can be expected to have a relevant benefit.
Very few therapies in heart failure improve cardiac efficiency. While inotropic drugs increase myocardial oxygen consumption in parallel with contractility, vasodilators decrease both parameters. The effect of phosphodiesterase III inhibitors depends on the vasodilative and inotropic effects as well [20].
The improved cardiac efficiency achieved by CRT is unlikely to be due to alterations in intrinsic myocyte function. As discussed above, in canine hearts, myocardial efficiency was similarly depressed acutely and after 4 months of RV pacing [30]. Rather, most of the net effect is observed at the chamber level because of the more coordinate contraction in different regions of the LV wall. This process is analogous to that of a poorly timed automotive engine; each piston continues to burn fuel, but when timing is suboptimal, there is reduced effective engine power, wasted work and lower fuel economy [31].

Conclusions

CRT has several beneficial effects on mechano-energetics of the heart: it alleviates impediment of the abnormal contraction on blood flow and increases myocardial efficiency. These two factors act together to increase the range of cardiac work that can be delivered by the patients’ heart, an effect that can explain the increased exercise tolerance and quality of life reported in several CRT trials.

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Metadaten
Titel
Mechano-energetics of the asynchronous and resynchronized heart
verfasst von
Frits W. Prinzen
Kevin Vernooy
Bart W. L. DeBoeck
Tammo Delhaas
Publikationsdatum
01.05.2011
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Heart Failure Reviews / Ausgabe 3/2011
Print ISSN: 1382-4147
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-7322
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10741-010-9205-3

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