[A case of permanent pacemaker implantation in neonate using steroid-eluting myocardial pacing leads].
A 0-day-old infant with symptomatic congenital atrioventricular block diagnosed by fetal echocardiography was successfully treated with the pacemaker implantation. Two steroid-eluting myocardial electrodes were fixed on the wall of the right ventricle. Steroid-eluting myocardial electrode is smaller than the others, stab-in and screw-in leads, so even in neonate we were able to place the leads by the subxyphoid approach. The postoperative thresholds were excellent.
Hashimoto
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Second Department of Surgery, Niigata University School of Medicine, Japan.
Sugawara
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Watanabe
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Hayashi
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Eguchi
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D002304:Cardiac Pacing, Artificial / Q000379:methods; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006327:Heart Block / Q000151:congenital* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial