TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dzemali, Omer
A1  - Monsefi, Nadejda
A1  - Moritz, Anton
A1  - Kleine, Peter
T1  - Permanent biventricular ICD-implantation in a heart failure second re-do-CABG patient : a case report
T2  - Cases journal
N2  - Biventricular pacing has been suggested in end-stage heart failure. We present a 59-year-old patient undergoing second re-do CABG (coronary artery bypass graft) and carotid artery endarterectomy. Ejection fraction was 15%, QRS-width 175 ms. Following the carotid and CABG procedure, an implanted single-chamber ICD (implantable cardioverter defibrillator) was upgraded to permanent biventricular DDD pacing by implantation of one epicardial left ventricular and one epicardial atrial electrode. At follow-up two months postoperatively ejection fraction had significantly improved to 45%, the patient underwent stress test with adequate load and reported a good quality of life.
Y1  - 2009
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/6379
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-64225
SN  - 1757-1626
N1  - © 2009 Dzemali et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
VL  - 2
IS  - 59
SP  - 1
EP  - 3
PB  - BioMed Central
CY  - London
ER  -