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SUBMITTER: Steinberg C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6288602 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Steinberg Christian C Deyell Marc W MW Chakrabarti Santabhanu S
Journal of arrhythmia 20181006 6
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- ...[more]