Key result
Laser recanalization using a long wire and introducer as a rail successfully opened a chronically occluded subclavian vein, allowing new pacing leads to be placed.
Laser recanalization using a long wire and introducer can facilitate the placement of new pacing leads in a chronically occluded subclavian vein.
May enable lead placement after subclavian occlusion in select cases; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
We report the use of a long wire and introducer as a rail for the laser recanalization of a chronically occluded subclavian vein following extraction of a fractured permanent pacing lead. This allowed new pacing leads to be placed through the previously occluded vessel.
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Henrikson et al. (2006) studied this question. Laser recanalization using a long wire and introducer as a rail successfully opened a chronically occluded subclavian vein, allowing new pacing leads to be placed.
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