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Transvenous Biventricular Pacing in a Child after Congenital Heart Surgery as an Alternative Therapy for Congestive Heart Failure
Author(s) -
BLOM NICO A.,
BAX JEROEN J.,
OTTENKAMP JAAP,
SCHALIJ MARTIN J.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.193
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1540-8167
pISSN - 1045-3873
DOI - 10.1046/j.1540-8167.2003.03158.x
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiac resynchronization therapy , heart failure , cardiology , left bundle branch block , hemodynamics , qrs complex , doppler imaging , ejection fraction , diastole , blood pressure
Cardiac resynchronization therapy improves short‐term and long‐term hemodynamics in adult patients with congestive heart failure and left bundle branch block. We describe the feasibility of transvenous biventricular pacemaker implantation in a 6‐year‐old child with heart failure and wide QRS complex after congenital heart surgery. Myocardial tissue Doppler imaging was used to demonstrate intraventricular dyssynchrony and resynchronization after cardiac resynchronization therapy. During 1‐year follow‐up, symptomatology and hemodynamic parameters improved. (J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol, Vol. 14, pp. 1110‐1112, October 2003)