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Europace Advance Access published online on June 16, 2008
Europace, doi:10.1093/europace/eun170
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2008. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

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Persistent left superior vena cava in patients treated with His-bundle pacing: trouble or help?

Gaetano Paparella1,*, Gian Battista Chierchia1, Andrea Sarkozy1, Anna Francesconi1, Carlo de Asmundis1, Lucio Capulzini1, Roberto Cazzin2 and Pedro Brugada1

1 Heart Rythm Management Center, UZ Brussel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Laarbeeklaan 101, Brussel 1090, Belgium; 2 Department of Cardiology, Hospital of Portogruaro, Via Zappetti 35, 30029, Italy

We describe a case of a 50-year-old man with advanced atrioventricular block treated successfully with His-bundle pacing via a persistent left superior vena cava draining into the coronary sinus.

Key Words: Persistent left superior vena cava, His-bundle pacing, Coronary sinus

* Corresponding author. Tel: +32 2 4776010; fax: +32 2 4776011. E-mail address: ga.pap{at}libero.it

Manuscript submitted 25 April 2008. Accepted after revision 27 May 2008.


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