Why the study?
Leadless pacemaker implantation can result in non-septal placement, and whether septal implantation lowers cardiac injury risk while compromising pacing parameters compared to non-septal placement is uncertain.
Does septal implantation of leadless pacemakers improve safety and pacemaker parameters compared to non-septal implantation?
Does septal implantation of leadless pacemakers improve safety and pacemaker parameters compared to non-septal implantation?
Septal implantation of leadless pacemakers may reduce the risk of cardiac injury but could result in inferior pacemaker parameters compared to non-septal placement.
Alerts to possible trade-offs with septal leadless pacemaker placement; leaves open optimal site selection without randomized data.
Leadless pacemaker implantation may be technically challenging with substantial number of patients with non-septal implantation when assessed by CT. Septal implantation may have a lower risk of cardiac injury but may lead to inferior pacemaker parameters than non-septal implantation.
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Arai et al. (2022) studied this question.
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