Key result
Implantation of an implantable cardioverter/defibrillator-pacemaker resolved conduction disturbance and improved exercise capacity to 12.8 METS in a patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and AV block.
Why the study?
Does implantable cardioverter/defibrillator-pacemaker (ICD-P) implantation improve conduction disturbance and exercise intolerance in a patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and AV block?
Case Report (n=1)
No
Does implantable cardioverter/defibrillator-pacemaker (ICD-P) implantation improve conduction disturbance and exercise intolerance in a patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and AV block?
In a patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and recurrent syncope, stress echocardiography revealed exercise-induced high-grade AV block, which was successfully treated with an ICD-pacemaker.
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May support ICD-P for exercise-induced AV block in HCM; hypothesis-generating from single case and should not yet change practice.
Kim et al. (2013) conducted a case report in Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with recurrent syncope and atrioventricular conduction disturbance (n=1). Implantable cardioverter/defibrillator-pacemaker (ICD-P) was evaluated on Improvement of conduction disturbance and exercise intolerance. Implantation of an implantable cardioverter/defibrillator-pacemaker resolved conduction disturbance and improved exercise capacity to 12.8 METS in a patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and AV block.