[CRT-FORUM] 32S 4 years old girl, with a Dilated Cardiomiopathy. Dr. Rondon

[CRT-INFO]

Dr Pedro (Cuba),

Of course the CRT device can be implanted, but the risk in patients with WPW
is the possibility of arrhythmias induced by the system, both in anterograde
and retrograde fashion, so you would be posing the ablation of the WPW at
the time of the CRT device implantation.

Regards,

Dr Mauricio Rondón
Sección de Electrofisiología y Marcapasos
Servicio de Cardiología - HUC
Jefe de Emergencia del HUC
Caracas - Venezuela
> COLLEAGUES OF THE CRT SYMPOSIUM : My name is Pedro de la Paz, a 
> pediatric cardiologist of Matanzas, Cuba. I would ask you about a 4 
> years old girl, with a Dilated Cardiomiopathy, symptomatic (class 
> II-III NYHA) with severe depressed LVEF, less than 30%, under 
> treatment with furosemide, spironolactone, captopril and carvedilol,  
> a WPW syndrome and a simple sinusal arrhythmia (probable sinus node 
> dysfunction),  is it possible to consider the electrical device 
> implantation (PM), to improve her VI disfunction ?
>
> thanks Dr Pedro (Cuba)
>


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