Pacing for hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy does it work?

J Saudi Heart Assoc. 2009 Jul;21(3):165-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jsha.2009.06.006. Epub 2009 Aug 5.

Abstract

Sixty-nine years old lady presented with sudden cardiac arrest, she was found to have hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy, she refused septal myomectomy and had a dual chamber ICD implanted, she was put on right ventricular apical pacing with short AV interval, after pacing her max pressure gradient across left ventricular out flow tract (LVOT) dropped from 117 mmHg to 21 mmHg and her symptoms much improved over a follow up period of 1 year.