Open AccessVentricular Resynchronization in Refractory Heart Failure
Author(s) -
Ali Omar,
Ventura Hector O.,
Stapleton Dwight D.,
Smart Frank W.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
congestive heart failure
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1751-7133
pISSN - 1527-5299
DOI - 10.1111/j.1527-5299.2000.80178.x
Subject(s) - medicine , heart failure , cardiac resynchronization therapy , refractory (planetary science) , cardiology , metallurgy , ejection fraction , materials science
The use of a multisite transvenous pacemaker in a patient with refractory heart failure who experienced short‐term symptomatic improvement is described. The improvement in heart failure symptoms was most likely related to resynchronization of atrioventricular and interventricular asynchrony. Large, multicenter, randomized trials of this technology are being performed to evaluate the importance of this therapeutic modality in the treatment of heart failure.