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B J Barber1, G H Burch, D Tripple
1Section of Pediatric Cardiology, Doernbecher Children's Hospital, Oregon Health and Sciences University, 707 SW Gaines Road, CDRC-P, Portland, OR 97239, USA.
Abstract:
We describe a 5-year-old boy with Fontan physiology and a ventricular pacemaker who developed severe plastic bronchitis. Evaluation by cardiac catheterization revealed profoundly altered hemodynamics, which improved with atrial pacing. Following implantation of an atrial pacemaker, which restored atrioventricular (A-V) synchrony, the patient's hemodynamics greatly improved and his plastic bronchitis resolved.
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