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Seymour Furman, MD
Bronx, NY

JAMA. 1966;196(12):1094.

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To the Editor:—

Jensen et al (195:916, 1966) are to be commended on their discussion of the hazards both potential and actual during the technique of permanent transvenous pacemaker implantation. It would certainly seem that a transvenous pacemaker, because of its ease of insertion and relatively benign implantation, would offer a wide applicability to the ill or debilitated patient.

Patient 1, who returned to regular sinus rhythm after institution of permanent transvenous pacing for four days would seem to have benefited from pacing with an externalized transvenous pacemaker because of the known proclivity for short periods of complete heart block and spontaneous return to sinus rhythm during acute myocardial infarction. Bruce et al (Amer Heart J 69:460,1965) review a collected series in which 43% of those patients with complete atrioventricular dissociation during acute myocardial infarction returned to regular sinus rhythm during the recovery period from the myocardial infarction . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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