Key result
Minimally invasive thoracoscopic epicardial LV lead placement offers a surgical approach for failed percutaneous CRT.
Why the study?
What are the outcomes of minimally invasive thoracoscopic epicardial LV lead placement in patients with failed percutaneous cardiac resynchronization therapy?
What are the outcomes of minimally invasive thoracoscopic epicardial LV lead placement in patients with failed percutaneous cardiac resynchronization therapy?
This report describes an institutional experience with a minimally invasive thoracoscopic approach for epicardial LV lead placement in patients who failed percutaneous CRT.
Outcome of surgical left ventricular (LV) lead placement is not well defined in patients with failed percutaneous cardiac resynchronization therapy. An extended experience with epicardial LV lead placement is here reported, describing the minimally invasive procedure performed at our institution using a thoracoscopic surgical approach.
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Droghetti et al. (2015) studied this question. Minimally invasive thoracoscopic epicardial left ventricular lead placement is described as a surgical approach for patients with failed percutaneous cardiac resynchronization therapy.
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