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Activation delay-induced mechanical dyssynchrony in single-ventricle heart disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2017

Daniel Forsha ,
Niels Risum  and
Piers Barker
Daniel Forsha*
Affiliation:
Ward Family Heart Center, Children’s Mercy Hospital, 2401 Gillham Road, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Niels Risum
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiology, Hvidovre University, Hvidovre, Denmark
Piers Barker
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, Duke University Medical Center, 2301 Erwin Road, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
*
Corresponding author: D. Forsha, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Ward Family Heart Center, Children’s Mercy Hospital, 2401 Gillham Road, Kansas City, MI 64108, United States of America. Tel: +303 921 5878; Fax: 816 302 9987; E-mail: Deforsha@cmh.edu
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Abstract

We present the case of an infant with a single functional ventricle who developed ventricular dysfunction and heart failure due to an electrical activation delay and dyssynchrony. Earlier recognition of this potentially reversible aetiology may have changed her poor outcome.

Keywords

Single ventricledyssynchronyspeckle tracking strainpattern analysisheart failurebundle branch block
Type
Images in Congenital Cardiac Disease
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 27 , Issue 7 , September 2017 , pp. 1390 - 1391
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Copyright
© Cambridge University Press 2017 

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