Permanent cardiac pacing with sutureless myocardial electrodes: experience in first one hundred patients.
This report concerns our experience with a sutureless myocardial lead which we have used in 103 patients for establishment of permanent cardiac pacing. The electrode was inserted through a subxiphoid approach in all patients. Results to date indicate that this technique compares favorably with the presently popular transvenous technique as far as immediate or long-term morbidity is concerned. Complications were related entirely to pericardiotomy; no lead failure was seen during a maximum follow-up period of four years.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000772:Anesthesia, Local; D002304:Cardiac Pacing, Artificial / Q000379:methods*; D004567:Electrodes, Implanted; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006321:Heart; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications