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Implantation of Pacemaker for Sick Sinus Syndrome in a Patient with Persistent Left Superior Vena Cava and Absent Right Superior Vena Cava

Overview
Journal Heart Vessels
Specialty Cardiology & Vascular Diseases
Date 2008 May 20
PMID 18484165
Citations 4
Authors
Yujiro Fukuda
Teruhisa Yoshida
Tomohito Inage
Tomohiro Takeuchi
Yasutsugu Nagamoto
Takeki Gondo
Tsutomu Imaizumi
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Abstract

Absent right superior vena cava with persistent left superior vena cava in normal situs is an exceedingly rare congenital anomaly. In such cases, pacemaker implantation (PMI) is very difficult or even impossible. We report the case of a patient with sick sinus syndrome in whom PMI was easily performed via the left superior vena cava by using a steerable stylet.

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