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Successful bridging by biventricular pacing for heart transplantation
Tadashi Omoto1, Bart Hansky, Kazutomo Minami
1Department of Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart Center North Rhine-Westphalia, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany. omota@kddnet.de
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|November 21, 2002
Abstract:
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.