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Successful treatment of end-stage hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with biventricular cardiac pacing

Authors :
L. Montagna
B. Pezzulich
P. Greco Lucchina
Source :
Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology. 7(4)
Publication Year :
2003

Abstract

The beneficial use of biventricular pacing is reported in a patient with end-stage hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, intraventricular conduction delay and echocardiographic evidence of intraventricular dyssyncrony. Marked improvement in clinical status, left ventricular ejection fraction and peak VO2 were observed. As far as we know, this is the first report of a beneficial effect of a biventricular device in this subset of patients, and may be worth further investigation.

Details

ISSN :
10995129
Volume :
7
Issue :
4
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....59277f28c994221d0035e9a9d25bee1e