Successful bridging by biventricular pacing for heart transplantation.
Biventricular pacing has been proposed recently for treating patients with medically refractory heart failure and ventricular desynchronization. We report the case of a 70-year-old man who had heart transplantation 7 months after implantation of a biventricular pacemaker.
Omoto
Tadashi
T
Department of Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart Center North Rhine-Westphalia, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany. omota@kddnet.de
Hansky
Bart
B
Minami
Kazutomo
K
Vogt
Jürgen
J
Lamp
Barbara
B
Körfer
Reiner
R
D000368:Aged; D002037:Bundle-Branch Block / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D017147:Defibrillators, Implantable; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008133:Long QT Syndrome / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000601:surgery; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery