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. 2021 Jun;14(3):546-555.
doi: 10.1007/s12265-020-10079-4. Epub 2020 Oct 27.

Stimulation Mapping of the Pulmonary Artery for Denervation Procedures: an Experimental Study

Heber Ivan Condori Leandro  1 , Aleksandr D Vakhrushev  1 , Natalia S Goncharova  2 , Lev E Korobchenko  3 , Elena G Koshevaya  4 , Lubov B Mitrofanova  4 , Elizaveta M Andreeva  3 , Olga M Moiseeva  2 , Dmitry S Lebedev  5   6 , Evgeny N Mikhaylov  7   8   9
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Stimulation Mapping of the Pulmonary Artery for Denervation Procedures: an Experimental Study

Heber Ivan Condori Leandro et al. J Cardiovasc Transl Res. 2021 Jun.

Abstract

Transcatheter pulmonary artery denervation (PADN) has been developed for the correction of pulmonary hypertension. We investigated pulmonary artery stimulation mapping and its role in PADN procedures. Artery stimulation was performed in 17 Landrace pigs. Low-frequency stimulation defined areas of ventricular and atrial capture. High-frequency stimulation evoked the following responses: sinus rhythm slowing and/or atrial rhythm acceleration in 59% of animals, phrenic nerve capture in 100%, and laryngeal recurrent nerve capture in 23%. The sites with evoked heart rate responses were marked by discrete radiofrequency ablations (RFA). An autopsy showed nerves in the adventitia and perivascular fat under the RFA sites, and the lack of muscarinic-1, tyrosine hydroxylase, and dopamine-5 receptors' expression. During PADN, areas adjacent to the course of phrenic and recurrent laryngeal nerves should be avoided. RFA at points with heart rate responses leads to the non-reproducibility of evoked reactions and the disappearance of neural markers' expression. Graphical abstract.

Keywords: Ablation; Denervation; Mapping; Perivascular nerve stimulation; Pulmonary arterial denervation.

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