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Video‐Assisted Thoracic Placement of Epicardial Leads
Author(s) -
Schouwenburg Jasper J.,
Klinkenberg Theo J.,
Maass Alexander H.,
Mariani Massimo A.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of cardiac surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.428
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1540-8191
pISSN - 0886-0440
DOI - 10.1111/jocs.12283
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiac resynchronization therapy , coronary sinus , cardiology , heart failure , cardiothoracic surgery , lead (geology) , cardiac surgery , surgery , ejection fraction , geomorphology , geology
Cardiac resynchronization therapy is one of the cornerstones of heart failure treatment. Inability to access the coronary sinus or one of its sidebranches is one of the most common causes of therapeutic failure. We describe a technique using video‐assisted thoracic surgery for epicardial placement of the left ventricular lead and use an intrathoracic route to connect the lead to the device. doi: 10.1111/jocs.12283 (J Card Surg 2014;29:286–289)