title: The acute effects of transvenous biventricular pacing in a patient with congestive heart failure.
abstract: The management of congestive heart failure remains an issue of great interest. Encouraging data emerged over the last 2 years supporting the use of multisite pacing in patients with severe congestive heart failure and intraventricular conduction delay. We present a case of acute biventricular pacing in a 81-year old man with dilated cardiomyopathy and symptomatic congestive heart failure. This novel form of pacemaker treatment resulted in a rapid hemodynamic and clinical improvement.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Stadtspital Triemli, Zürich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Debrunner
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Naegeli
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Bertel
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002302:Cardiac Output / Q000502:physiology; D002311:Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D006439:Hemodynamics / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial; D016896:Treatment Outcome