Does transvenous left atrial pacing control recurrent ventricular fibrillation in a patient with acute anterolateral myocardial infarction?
Transvenous left atrial pacing successfully controlled recurrent ventricular fibrillation in a patient with an acute anterolateral myocardial infarction when standard pacing was unstable.
A 67-year-old man with acute anterolateral myocardial infarction had recurrent ventricular fibrillation that required insertion of temporary pacemaker. When a permanent pacemaker was inserted stable pacing was not obtained until the catheter tip stimulated the left atrium. Four months after discharge from the hospital the patient was doing well, and left atrial pacing has continued.
Moss et al. (Thu,) studied this question.