Europace Advance Access published online on January 9, 2006
Europace, doi:10.1093/europace/euj025
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1 Department of Cardiology, Good Hope Hospital, Sutton Coldfield, UK
* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Received November 11, 2004
Accepted September 30, 2005
Case report
Cardiac resynchronization via the femoral vein: a novel method in cases with contraindications to the pectoral approach
Zaheer Yousef 1,
Vincent Paul 2,
and
Francisco Leyva 1 *
2 Department of Cardiology, St Peters Hospital, Chertsey, UK
Francisco Leyva, E-mail: francisco.leyva{at}goodhope.nhs.uk
We describe a case involving biventricular pacemaker implantation via the right femoral vein in a patient where subclavian vein access was not possible.
Keywords:
Cardiac resynchronization; Biventricular pacemaker; Femoral vein.
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