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Ann Thorac Surg 2002;74:1684-1685
© 2002 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Case report

Successful bridging by biventricular pacing for heart transplantation

Tadashi Omoto, MDa*, Bart Hansky, MDa, Kazutomo Minami, MDa, Jürgen Vogt, MDa, Barbara Lamp, MDa, Reiner Körfer, MDa

a Department of Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart Center North Rhine-Westphalia, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany

Accepted for publication June 28, 2002.

* Address reprint requests to Dr Omoto, Department of Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart Center North Rhine-Westphalia, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
e-mail: omota{at}kddnet.de

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.




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