Permanent pacemaker lead implantation via the transhepatic route.

Pacing Clin Electrophysiol

Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Medical School, New York, New York, USA.

Published: July 1996

A 4-year-old male with transposition of the great arteries, status post-Senning repair, required placement of an atrial pacemaker for sinus node dysfunction and atrial flutter. Multiple systemic venous occlusions precluded conventional transvenous lead implantation. A transhepatic approach resulted in successful placement of an endocardial atrial pacing lead.

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