Author/Authors :
alper, ahmet taha dr. siyami ersek thoracic and cardiovascular surgery training and research hospital - department of cardiology, istanbul, Turkey , hayıroğlu, mert ilker haydarpasa sultan abdulhamid han training and research hospital - department of cardiology, Istanbul, Turkey , barutça, hakan dr. siyami ersek thoracic and cardiovascular surgery training and researchhospital - department of radiology, Istanbul, Turkey , tekkeþin, ahmet ilker dr. siyami ersek thoracic and cardiovascular surgery training and research hospital - department of cardiology, istanbul, turkey , türkkan, ceyhan dr. siyami ersek thoracic and cardiovascular surgery training and research hospital - department of cardiology, istanbul, Turkey
Abstract :
The coronary sinus, whose electrical features play an important role in cardiac arrhythmias, is the integral part of the cardiac venous system. Here we describe a 67-year-old male patient with congestive heart failure who was referred to our hospital after the failure of the first cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (CRT-D) implantation. During the cannulation of the coronary sinus, the separate orifice of the posterior cardiac vein was demonstrated by the retrograde filling of the coronary sinus via contrast injection into the posterior cardiac vein. Due to the serious tortuosity of the coronary venous sinus, a multipolar left ventricular lead was implanted using the separate ostium of the posterior cardiac vein. In our patient, the posterior cardiac vein directly drained into the right atrium. At 3 months’ follow-up with the CRT-D, he was asymptomatic (New York Heart Association functional class I).
