Why the study?
Does venoplasty or dilatation allow for safe and effective placement of transvenous pacemaker and ICD leads across total chronic occlusions?
Does venoplasty or dilatation allow for safe and effective placement of transvenous pacemaker and ICD leads across total chronic occlusions?
Venoplasty or dilatation is a viable and safe technique to overcome chronic total venous occlusions when placing transvenous pacemaker or ICD leads.
May aid device implantation across venous occlusions; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Venoplasty or dilatation of chronic total venous occlusion is a safe and effective technique, which allows for placement of transvenous leads.
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McCotter et al. (2005) studied this question.
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