Key result
Intra-aortic balloon pump activation successfully managed acute pulmonary oedema in two patients during biventricular pacemaker implantation, allowing the operations to be completed.
Why the study?
Does intra-aortic balloon pump activation improve clinical condition in patients developing acute pulmonary oedema during CRT implantation?
Does intra-aortic balloon pump activation improve clinical condition in patients developing acute pulmonary oedema during CRT implantation?
Intra-aortic balloon pump activation can be an effective rescue strategy for acute pulmonary oedema developing during CRT implantation.
IABP may facilitate CRT implantation complicated by acute pulmonary oedema; hypothesis-generating from two cases and requires prospective validation.
In this report, we present the case of two patients who experienced the development of acute pulmonary oedema during biventricular pacemaker implantation for cardiac resynchronization therapy. In both the cases, the activation of an intra-aortic balloon pump improved the clinical condition and the operation could be completed, which would otherwise have to be postponed.
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Altın et al. (2008) studied this question. Intra-aortic balloon pump activation successfully managed acute pulmonary oedema in two patients during biventricular pacemaker implantation, allowing the operations to be completed.
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