Are epicardial leads useful for long-term pacing?
A convincing answer to this question has been given in 2006 by B. Ector et al. Epicardial pacing: a single-centre study on 321 leads in 138 patients “OBJECTIVE: This study presents the long-term outcome of 321 epicardial leads in 138 patients. METHODS AND RESULTS: All leads were Medtronic CapsureEpi model 4965 steroid eluting leads. The 1-, 3-, and 5-year patient survival was 91%, 83% and 77%, respectively.Twenty-seven patients died. In 25/27 deaths a pacing-related death could be excluded. Strangulation of the heart by an abandoned epicardial lead was the cause of death in one child. One other patient died suddenly at the age of 3 years. Failures occurred in 57 of 321 epicardial leads (18%). For all 321 leads, the 1-, 3- and 5-year freedom from failure was 91%, 85% and 71%, respectively.The cumulative proportion of patients without any lead defect was 85% after I year, 76% after 3 years and 62% after 5 years. The percentage of patients without serious adverse events at 1, 3, and 5 yea
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