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Translational Rabbit Model of Chronic Cardiac Pacing
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Inferior vena caval loop of an endocardial pacing lead did not solve the growth problem in a child
H Antretter1, H Hangler, J Colvin
1Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Innsbruck, Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck, Austria. herwig.antretter@uibk.ac.at
Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology : PACE
|January 31, 2002
Abstract:
This report describes a transvenous pacemaker lead insertion into a child's right ventricle with a loop formed within the inferior vena cava to allow growth. Five years later emergency revision was necessary because of loss of capture. The expected lead release had not taken place.
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