[Clinical case of significant "reverse remodeling" after cardiac resynchronization therapy]

Ital Heart J Suppl. 2003 Apr;4(4):337-9.
[Article in Italian]

Abstract

A 79-year-old man refers to our echocardiolab for a normal follow-up after 2 years of biventricular pacing. Seven years before the present observation, the patient underwent a biological aortic valve replacement for severe valvular stenosis in the presence of marked systolic dysfunction of the left ventricle and advanced cardiac failure symptoms. The evaluation of the present and past clinical and echocardiographic parameters suggests that conventional surgery and full medical therapy did not elicit an improvement of both functional and clinical parameters, whereas cardiac resynchronization therapy dramatically improved in the mid term all the clinical and functional parameters.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Aortic Valve Stenosis / complications
  • Aortic Valve Stenosis / diagnostic imaging
  • Aortic Valve Stenosis / surgery
  • Cardiac Pacing, Artificial*
  • Echocardiography*
  • Heart Failure / diagnostic imaging
  • Heart Failure / etiology
  • Heart Failure / therapy*
  • Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / complications
  • Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / diagnostic imaging
  • Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / etiology
  • Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / therapy*