Surgical Implantation of Endocardial Lead for Adult Congenital Atrioventricular Block Combined with Obstructed Bilateral Subclavian Vein / 日本心臓血管外科学会雑誌

ABSTRACT

<p>For A 38-year-old male diagnosed a congenital complete atrioventricular block in the neonatal period, epicardial lead and pacemaker was implanted through left thoracotomy. Although we tried to implant a pacemaker through the subclavian vein as an adult, it was unsuccessful because of obstruction of the bilateral subclavian vein. For this reason, we performed a pacemaker implantation with transatrial-endocardial lead through the right thoracotomy due to save the generator electric power. This is one of the useful techniques for cases with obstruction of the upper extremity vein.</p>