Permanent pacing from a left ventricular vein in a patient with persistent left superior vena cava and absent right superior vena cava: use of an over-the-wire system.
In patients with a persistent left superior vena cava, placement of a permanent transvenous pacing lead for ventricular pacing via the left subclavian vein can be technically challenging. Permanent pacing was achieved in a patient with a persistent left superior vena cava and absent right superior vena cava using a left ventricular vein. Use of an over-the-wire lead system greatly facilitated this procedure.
Gaba
Deepak
D
Department of Medicine, Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Kittusamy
Prem
P
Ho
Reginald T
RT
Pavri
Behzad
B
Greenspon
Arnold J
AJ
D000368:Aged; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D002304:Cardiac Pacing, Artificial / Q000379:methods*; D003331:Coronary Vessels; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial; D014683:Vena Cava, Superior / Q000002:abnormalities*