Interventions for valvular disease and heart failure

Early experience with a purpose-designed temporary pacing guidewire for transcatheter valve implantation

EuroIntervention 2019;15:e508-e509. DOI: 10.4244/EIJ-D-19-00138

Mark Hensey
Mark Hensey1, MB, BCh, BAO; David Daniels2, MD; David Wood1, MD; John G. Webb1, MD
1. Centre for Heart Valve Innovation, St Paul’s Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; 2. Sutter Health Bay Area, San Francisco, CA, USA




Figure 1. The Wattson temporary pacing guidewire. A) SAPIEN 3 deployment in the aortic position with the Wattson wire. B) Tricuspid valve-in-valve with SAPIEN 3 with the Wattson wire. C) Pigtail with exposed electrodes (arrows). D) Pacing set-up with adaptor connected to external pacing device. E) Connection of adaptor. F) Adaptor release button (arrow).

Transcatheter heart valve implantation generally requires both a ventricular guidewire and a temporary transvenous pacemaker (TVP). TVP insertion is not without risks, namely vascular injury, cardiac perforation and tamponade1. The modification of a ventricular guidewire to deliver unipolar pacing for transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has ...

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