Abstract
Because the major cause of death in patients awaiting heart transplantation results from out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest, the use of the implantable cardioverter defibrillator has been proposed as a bridge to transplantation. To provide a safe and simple implantation procedure that also easily allows access to cardiopulmonary bypass at the time of transplantation, a modified subxiphoid approach is reported.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1067-1070 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 6 I |
| State | Published - 1993 |