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Spinal Cord Electrical Stimulation in Severe Angina Pectoris: Surgical Technique, Intraoperative Physiology, Complications, and Side Effects
Author(s) -
AUGUSTINSSON L.E.
Publication year - 1989
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.1540-8159.1989.tb02716.x
Subject(s) - medicine , angina , spinal cord stimulation , angioplasty , spinal cord stimulator , spinal cord , stimulation , anesthesia , surgery , cardiology , myocardial infarction , psychiatry
Twenty patients with angina pectoris were treated with spinal cord stimulation (SCS) at the T 1 , T 2 level of the spinal cord since June 1985. These patients were not candidates for angioplasty or coronary bypass or those procedures had failed. There were no injections. One lead broke and one lead migrated. Both were corrected migrally and regained some relief. The relief of pain with SCS may be an alternative treatment to coronary bypass or angioplasty in some patients.