Key result
Balloon venoplasty and stenting resolve lead-related SVC obstruction, maintaining symptom freedom at 9 months.
Why the study?
Does balloon venoplasty and stent insertion improve symptoms in a patient with superior vena cava obstruction from a pacemaker lead?
Comparison
Balloon venoplasty and stent insertion
Design
Case report
Authors
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May support endovascular treatment of pacemaker-related SVC obstruction; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Does balloon venoplasty and stent insertion improve symptoms in a patient with superior vena cava obstruction from a pacemaker lead?
Balloon venoplasty and stent insertion can successfully treat superior vena cava obstruction caused by an endocardial pacemaker lead.
Lindsay et al. (1994) studied this question. Balloon venoplasty and stent insertion successfully treated symptomatic superior vena cava obstruction associated with a pacemaker lead, leaving the patient symptom-free at nine months.
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