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Ann Thorac Surg 2006;81:407
© 2006 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Correspondence

Minimally Invasive Surgical Placement of Left Ventricular Epicardial Lead: Letter 1

Gianluigi Bisleri, MD, Tomaso Bottio, MD, PhD, Claudio Muneretto, MD

Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Brescia Medical School, UDA Cardiochirurgia – Spedali Civili, P.le Spedali Civili, 1, Brescia, 25123 Italy

(Email: gianluigi_bisleri@katamail.com).

The first 20% of the full text of this article appears below.

To the Editor:

We read with interest the article of Doll and colleagues [1] about the minimally invasive use of a novel tool for left ventricular lead placement; nevertheless, their report raises several concerns.

First, the authors state that the thoracotomy approach avoids the drawbacks of thoracoscopy in terms of hemodynamic instability. In our thoracoscopic experience, . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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