Steinberg Christian, Deyell Marc W, Chakrabarti Santabhanu
Heart Rhythm Services - St-Paul's Hospital University of British Columbia Vancouver BC Canada.
J Arrhythm. 2018 Oct 6;34(6):656-658. doi: 10.1002/joa3.12120. eCollection 2018 Dec.
Implantation of a cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) device in patients with congenital heart disease may be challenging because of the particular underlying anatomy. We present the case of a right-sided transvenous implantation of a dual-chamber CRT-D device in a patient with situs inversus totalis and mirror image dextrocardia. To facilitate our anatomic orientation and to overcome unusual hand-eye coordination problems, we decided to flip the fluoroscopic image projection by 180° (right-left), creating the optical impression of a "normalized" heart position (levocardia). This simple approach allowed us to successfully implant the device using a conventional left-sided CRT delivery system.
由于先天性心脏病患者存在特殊的基础解剖结构,植入心脏再同步治疗(CRT)设备可能具有挑战性。我们报告了一例在全内脏反位和镜像右位心患者中经静脉右侧植入双腔CRT-D设备的病例。为了便于我们进行解剖定位并克服不寻常的手眼协调问题,我们决定将荧光透视图像投影翻转180°(左右翻转),营造出心脏位置“正常化”(左位心)的视觉印象。这种简单的方法使我们能够使用传统的左侧CRT输送系统成功植入该设备。