The width of life is more important than the length of life
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Yakut, İdrisKara, Meryem
Könte, Hasan Can
Özcan Çetin, Elif Hande
Korkmaz, Ahmet
Özeke, Özcan
Çay, Serkan
Özcan, Fırat
Topaloğlu, Serkan
Aras, Dursun
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Yakut, İ., Kara, M., Könte, H. C., Özcan Çetin, E. H., Korkmaz, A., Özeke, Ö. ... Aras, D. (2023). The width of life is more important than the length of life. Anatolian Journal of Cardiology, 27(4), 185-188. https://dx.doi.org/10.14744/AnatolJCardiol.2022.2525Abstract
A 58-year-old man with previous inferior myocardial infarction (MI) was referred for cardiac resynchronization therapy pacemaker (CRT-P) for decreased left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF; 45%) and left bundle branch block (LBBB) (Figure 1). He had New York Heart Association Class I functional classification but palpitation for 3 months. General physical and cardiac examinations were normal. On the admission day, the electrocardiogram showed a narrow QRS rhythm with and without tachycardia (Figures 2 and 3). Would you recommend or consider a CRT-P device or a CRT defibrillator or only an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) based on these clinical and electrocardiographic findings, or ablation or medical therapy only.