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Angioplasty Facilitated Permanent Pacing in de Novo Superior Vena Cava Obstruction
Author(s) -
PRASAN ANANTH M.,
GIRARDI PETER,
GLENN DEREK,
RAMSAY DAVID R.
Publication year - 2005
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.1540-8159.2005.00180.x
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiac pacing , transvenous pacing , superior vena cava , angioplasty , permanent pacemaker , cardiology , occlusion , surgery
The finding of complete occlusion of the superior venal cava during the performance of cardiac pacing is rare. We report a case where performance of angioplasty aided the successful completion of permanent pacemaker implantation.