Why the study?
Do steroid-eluting epicardial leads provide stable pacing/sensing thresholds and comparable lead survival to historical endocardial leads in pediatric patients?
Population
Pediatric patients requiring permanent pacing (evaluation of >200 epicardial leads)
Comparison
Permanent epicardial pacing using… vs Historical conventional endocardial leads
Design
Cohort
Authors
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May support steroid-eluting epicardial leads in pediatric pacing; leaves open need for randomized confirmation versus endocardial leads.
Do steroid-eluting epicardial leads provide stable pacing/sensing thresholds and comparable lead survival to historical endocardial leads in pediatric patients?
Steroid-eluting epicardial leads provide stable long-term pacing parameters and survival comparable to endocardial leads in pediatric patients.
Cohen et al. (2001) studied this question.
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