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.
Steroid epicardial leads demonstrated relatively stable acute and chronic pacing and sensing thresholds. In this evaluation of >200 epicardial leads, lead survival was good, with steroid-eluting leads demonstrating results similar to those found with historical conventional endocardial leads.
Cohen et al. (2001) studied this question.