Resolution of plastic bronchitis with atrial pacing in a patient with fontan physiology.

Abstract

We describe a 5-year-old boy with Fontan physiology and a ventricular pacemaker who developed severe plastic bronchitis. Evaluation by cardiac catheterization revealed profoundly altered hemodynamics, which improved with atrial pacing. Following implantation of an atrial pacemaker, which restored atrioventricular (A-V) synchrony, the patient's hemodynamics greatly improved and his plastic bronchitis resolved.

• Authors: B J Barber, G H Burch, D Tripple, S Balaji
• Journal: Pediatric cardiology (Pediatr Cardiol) 2004 Jan-Feb Vol. 25 Issue 1 Pg. 73-6 ISSN: 0172-0643 [Print] United States
• PMID: 14534762 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)

Topics

• Bronchitis (etiology, therapy)
• Child, Preschool
• Humans
• Male
• Pacemaker, Artificial
• Tricuspid Atresia (complications, physiopathology, surgery)