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Ann Thorac Surg 2006;81:407-408
© 2006 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Correspondence

Minimally Invasive Surgical Placement of Left Ventricular Epicardial Lead: Letter 2

Helmut Mair, MD, Ingo Kaczmarek, MD, Martin Oberhoffer, MD, Sabine Daebritz, MD

Cardiac Surgery, University of Munich, Marchioninistr 15, Munich, 81377 Germany

(Email: helmut.mair@med.uni-muenchen.de).

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

To the Editor:

Doll and associates [1] recently described epicardial left ventricular (LV) lead placement with the Medtronic 5071 Epicardial pacing lead (Medtronic, Inc, Minneapolis, MN) through an anterolateral mini-thoracotomy facilitated by using the Medtronic 10626 lead implant tool for cardiac resynchronization therapy in 7 patients with transvenous implantation failure. However, we have some additional comments.

Metal rip spreaders as used in the presented study, are associated with marked postoperative chest pain, even if applied with only slight retraction. We experienced this as well in our first serious of . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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