Placement of a temporary pacemaker electrode through a persistent left superior vena cava

Intensive Care Medicine - Tập 24 - Trang 639-640 - 1998
T. A. Cron1, P. T. Buser1, S. Osswald1
1Cardiac Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

Tóm tắt

Perioperative temporary pacing was needed in a patient with congenital skeletal malformations and a cardiac conduction disturbance with incomplete trifascicular block. We report the successful placement of the pacemaker electrode through a persistent left superior vena cava (SVC).

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