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Ann Thorac Surg 1997;63:1486-1488
© 1997 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

How To Do It

Preperitoneal Suprahepatic Pacemaker Generator Placement in the Pediatric Population

J. Nilas Young, MD, Tobias J. Bacaner, MD, Carl A. Powell, MD

Division of Cardiac Surgery, Children's Hospital Oakland, and Department of Surgery, University of California Davis-East Bay, Oakland, California

Accepted for publication November 8, 1996.

We have used a preperitoneal suprahepatic location for pacemaker generator placement in pediatric patients requiring permanent pacemakers with epicardial leads. The technique is rapid, simple, and safe, and cosmesis is excellent, making this approach particularly advantageous in the younger infant and neonate.




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