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Ann Thorac Surg 2007;84:1072-1073
© 2007 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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The Need for Pacemaker Implantation After Using a Superior Transseptal Approach: Letter 1

Yoshio Misawa, MD, Tsutomu Saito, MD, Hiroaki Konishi, MD

Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Jichi Medical University, Yakushiji 3311-1, Shimotsuke, Tochigi, 329-0498 Japan

(Email: tcvmisa@jichi.ac.jp).

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To the Editor:

We read with great interest Lukac and colleagues’ [1] article in which they analyzed 150 patients after mitral valve surgery that used the superior transseptal approach and compared them with 427 patients operated on by the left atrial approach. They concluded that the superior transseptal approach has a higher risk of clinically significant sinus node dysfunction than the left atrial approach, but that the risk of pacemaker implantation because of atrioventricular conduction disturbances was not different between the groups.

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