Permanent pacing in patients with tricuspid valve replacements.

Permanent cardiac pacing and its influence on tricuspid valve function.

Implantation of transvenous devices is a widespread procedure in clinical cardiology. It is well known that the presence of the electrodes in the cardiovascular system can induce fibrosis or fibrous adhesions between them and cause tricuspid regurgitation. Moreover there are suggestions that the placement of the electrode in the tricuspid orifice may also play a role in the development of tricu...

Cardiac pacing in a patient with mechanical tricuspid valve.

89 coaptation, the patient was scheduled for tricuspid valve annuloplasty with concurrent implantation of an epicardial ventricular lead and pacemaker. The operation was preceded by the transvenous extraction of the old ventricular lead. Due to advanced tricuspid valve lesions, a decision was made during surgery to perform artificial tricuspid valve implantation (Medtronic ATS 33 mm). Simultane...

Adhesions of pacing catheter to tricuspid valve: adhesive endocarditis.

Ventricular Pacing via the Coronary Sinus in a Patient with a Mechanical Tricuspid Valve Prosthesis

Implantation of a transvenous endocardial pacing lead in the right ventricle is contraindicated after mechanical tricuspid valve replacement; therefore a surgical approach to the epicardium is usually required. This case report describes ventricular pacing via a branch of the coronary sinus in a patient with mechanical mitral, aortic and tricuspid valve replacements. In conclusion, this approac...

Single site pacing through the anterior interventricular vein in a patient with a mechanic tricuspid valve

Transvenous endocardial pacing through classical implantation of a pace/sensing lead in the right ventricle is strictly contraindicated in patients with a mechanical tricuspid valve. Usually permanent pacing is achieved by an epimyocardial surgical approach. We hereby describe the implantation of a single site left ventricle pacing lead in the anterior interventricular vein in a 60 year-old wom...