PMID- 14658411
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20040129
LR  - 20071115
IS  - 0914-5087 (Print)
IS  - 0914-5087 (Linking)
VI  - 42
IP  - 5
DP  - 2003 Nov
TI  - [Beneficial biventricular pacing in a patient with cardiac sarcoidosis and 
      refractory heart failure: a case report].
PG  - 221-6
AB  - A 54-year-old woman had been treated under a diagnosis of cardiac sarcoidosis 
      since 1998. She was admitted to our department because of recurrent heart failure 
      in April 2002. A DDD pacemaker was implanted because of complete AV block in 
      2000, but she had always suffered from > or = New York Heart Association (NYHA) 
      class III heart failure. To prevent recurrent heart failure, biventricular pacing 
      was performed. The left ventricular epicardial pacing lead was newly inserted 
      into the great cardiac vein via the left subclavian vein, and connected with the 
      previously implanted generator. The QRS duration decreased from 200 to 140 msec. 
      Serum brian natriuretic peptide level decreased from 321 to 226 pg/ml. Cardiac 
      index increased from 1.93 to 2.20. Her functional class improved from NYHA class 
      III to class II.
FAU - Sato, Akinori
AU  - Sato A
AD  - Department of Cardiology, Kameda Medical Center, Higashi-cho 929, Kamogawa, Chiba 
      296-8602.
FAU - Ohara, Takahiro
AU  - Ohara T
FAU - Algowhary, Magdy
AU  - Algowhary M
FAU - Suzuki, Makoto
AU  - Suzuki M
FAU - Matsumura, Akihiko
AU  - Matsumura A
FAU - Hashimoto, Yuji
AU  - Hashimoto Y
FAU - Isobe, Mitsuaki
AU  - Isobe M
LA  - jpn
PT  - Case Reports
PT  - English Abstract
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - J Cardiol
JT  - Journal of cardiology
JID - 8804703
SB  - IM
MH  - Cardiomyopathies/*complications
MH  - Female
MH  - Heart Failure/etiology/*therapy
MH  - Heart Ventricles
MH  - Humans
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - *Pacemaker, Artificial
MH  - Sarcoidosis/*complications
EDAT- 2003/12/09 05:00
MHDA- 2004/01/30 05:00
CRDT- 2003/12/09 05:00
PHST- 2003/12/09 05:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2004/01/30 05:00 [medline]
PHST- 2003/12/09 05:00 [entrez]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Cardiol. 2003 Nov;42(5):221-6.