title: [Clinical case of significant "reverse remodeling" after cardiac resynchronization therapy].
abstract: A 79-year-old man refers to our echocardiolab for a normal follow-up after 2 years of biventricular pacing. Seven years before the present observation, the patient underwent a biological aortic valve replacement for severe valvular stenosis in the presence of marked systolic dysfunction of the left ventricle and advanced cardiac failure symptoms. The evaluation of the present and past clinical and echocardiographic parameters suggests that conventional surgery and full medical therapy did not elicit an improvement of both functional and clinical parameters, whereas cardiac resynchronization therapy dramatically improved in the mid term all the clinical and functional parameters.
authors.affiliation: Divisione di Cardiologia Presidio Ospedaliero Spirito Santo Via R. Paolini, 45 65124 Pescara. afalcone@abol.it
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Falcone
authors.forename: Guido
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ranalli
authors.forename: Raffaele
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Luise
authors.forename: Gabriele
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Di Giammarco
authors.forename: Raffaele
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: De Caterina
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mobilij
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001024:Aortic Valve Stenosis / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D002304:Cardiac Pacing, Artificial; D004452:Echocardiography; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D019918:Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*