Premium
Coronary Sinus Lead Fragmentation 2 Years After Implantation with a Retained Guidewire
Author(s) -
NÄGELE HERBERT,
HASHAGEN SANDRA,
ERGIN MEHMET,
AZIZI MOJGAN,
BEHRENS STEFAN
Publication year - 2007
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.1540-8159.2007.00688.x
Subject(s) - medicine , coronary sinus , cardiac resynchronization therapy , lead (geology) , implant , cardiology , heart failure , surgery , ejection fraction , geomorphology , geology
Cardiac Resynchronization therapy (CRT) using coronary sinus (CS) leads is an established method for the therapy of congestive heart failure (CHF) in the case of inter‐ and intraventricular conduction delays. However implantation of CS leads is somewhat challenging due to a high number of peri‐ or postoperative dislocations at a rate of about 10%. The retained guidewire technique has been proposed for the implantation of coronary sinus leads for stabilization in case of repetitive intraoperative dislocations. This report describes CS lead and guidewire fracture 2 years after such an implant.