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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.
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Barber, B., Burch, G., Tripple, D. et al. Resolution of Plastic Bronchitis with Atrial Pacing in a Patient with Fontan Physiology . Pediatr Cardiol 25, 73–76 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00246-003-0529-9
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