Minimally invasive, pericardial implantable cardioverter-defibrillator placement in a young child

We report the successful minimally invasive placement of a pericardial implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) in a 16-kg child. A transvenous ICD dual coil was advanced through a small subxiphoid incision and screwed into the oblique sinus pericardium under fluoroscopic guidance. An additional...

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Main Authors: Wakana Maki, Hiroko Asakai, Kazuhiro Shiraga, Takahiro Shindo, Yoichiro Hirata, Ryo Inuzuka, Yasutaka Hirata, Akira Oka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2017-10-01
Series:Journal of Arrhythmia
Subjects:
ICD
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1880427617301217