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Permanent Cardiac Pacing with Sutureless Myocardial Electrodes: Experience in First One Hundred Patients
Author(s) -
FEYTER P.J.,
MAJID P.A.,
HOITSMA H.F.W.,
STROES W.,
ROOS J.P.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
pacing and clinical electrophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.686
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1540-8159
pISSN - 0147-8389
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1980.tb04322.x
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiac pacing , lead (geology) , cardiology , cardiac surgery , surgery , geology , geomorphology
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.