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June 9 This Week in Cardiology

This Week in Cardiology

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The Harm of Pacing Leads in Tricuspid Valve Interventions

This whole topic stems from a very nice talk at Heart Rhythm Society from Dr. Michael Lloyd at Emory University. His talk centered on the issue of the potential harm in doing tricuspid valve interventions in patients who already have a pacing lead through the valve into the RV. There is some data some very weak data suggesting that pacing leads worse than TR. But recall that we have decades of evidence that standard devices improve outcomes with ICD and CRT.

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