title: Salvage of a failing bifurcated bipolar epicardial lead with conductor fracture.
abstract: Cardiac rhythm abnormalities in children are often managed by using epicardial pacing systems. Lead failure poses a serious problem in pacemaker-dependent patients. We describe a lead repair that was not intuitive and avoided repeat thoracotomy in a pacemaker-dependent patient with lead fracture.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA.
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rusanov
authors.forename: Henry M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Spotnitz
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D004868:Equipment Failure; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial; D011474:Prosthesis Design