Ventricular pacing from the coronary sinus of a patient with a Fontan circulation.
Permanent pacing of the left ventricle was achieved by transvenous implantation of a steroid-eluting electrode into the coronary sinus in a patient who had undergone a Fontan operation. This approach to endocardial pacemaker implantation is potentially of considerable value in patients who do not have transvenous access to the right ventricle.
Blackburn
M E
ME
Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Killingbeck Hospital, York Road, Leeds.
Gibbs
J L
JL
D000328:Adult; D002304:Cardiac Pacing, Artificial / Q000379:methods*; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003331:Coronary Vessels; D006321:Heart / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006327:Heart Block / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014188:Transposition of Great Vessels / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*