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

Intensive Care Med. 1998 Jun;24(6):639-40. doi: 10.1007/s001340050630.

Abstract

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).

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Abnormalities, Multiple / surgery*
  • Aged
  • Cardiac Pacing, Artificial / methods*
  • Electrodes, Implanted
  • Female
  • Heart Block* / complications
  • Heart Block* / therapy
  • Humans
  • Intraoperative Complications / prevention & control*
  • Pacemaker, Artificial
  • Vena Cava, Superior / abnormalities*