Does venoplasty or dilatation allow for safe and effective placement of transvenous pacemaker and ICD leads across total chronic occlusions?
Venoplasty or dilatation is a viable and safe technique to overcome chronic total venous occlusions when placing transvenous pacemaker or ICD leads.
Venoplasty or dilatation of chronic total venous occlusion is a safe and effective technique, which allows for placement of transvenous leads.
McCotter et al. (Thu,) studied this question.
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