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Biventricular pacing for weaning from extracorporeal circulation in heart failure
Peter Kleine1, Mirko Doss, Tayfun Aybek
1Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. p.kleine@em.uni-frankfurt.de
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|March 20, 2002
Abstract:
Resynchronization of the intra- and interventricular conduction by biventricular pacing has been suggested in patients with end-stage heart failure. We present a case in which extracorporeal circulation could only be weaned after placement of an additional left ventricular pacing wire. Biventricular stimulation led to normal motion of the anterior wall and a previously bulging interventricular septum; this improved the hemodynamic situation significantly.