Intracardiac Echocardiography Guidance for Left Bundle Pacing: An Expensive Adjunct or Necessity for Optimal Lead Placement?

HomeCirculation: Arrhythmia and ElectrophysiologyVol. 16, No. 4Intracardiac Echocardiography Guidance for Left Bundle Pacing: An Expensive Adjunct or Necessity for Optimal Lead Placement? No AccessEditorialRequest AccessFull TextAboutView Full TextView PDFView EPUBSections ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload citationsTrack citationsPermissions ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InMendeleyReddit Jump toNo AccessEditorialRequest AccessFull TextIntracardiac Echocardiography Guidance for Left Bundle Pacing: An Expensive Adjunct or Necessity for Optimal Lead Placement? Syeda Atiqa Batul and Pugazhendhi Vijayaraman Syeda Atiqa BatulSyeda Atiqa Batul https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7970-710X Geisinger Heart Institute, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, Wilkes-Barre, PA. Search for more papers by this author and Pugazhendhi VijayaramanPugazhendhi Vijayaraman Correspondence to: Pugazhendhi Vijayaraman, MD, Geisinger Heart Institute, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, 1000 E Mountain Blvd, MC 36-10, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18711. Email E-mail Address: [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2230-100X Geisinger Heart Institute, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, Wilkes-Barre, PA. Search for more papers by this author Originally published23 Mar 2023https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCEP.123.011931Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. 2023;16This article is a commentary on the followingIntracardiac Echocardiography–Guided Implantation for Proximal Left Bundle Branch PacingFootnotesFor Disclosures, see page 224.The opinions expressed in this article are not necessarily those of the editors or of the American Heart Association.Correspondence to: Pugazhendhi Vijayaraman, MD, Geisinger Heart Institute, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, 1000 E Mountain Blvd, MC 36-10, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18711. Email [email protected].eduReferences1. Vijayaraman P, Chung M, Dandamudi G, Upadhyay G, Krishnan K, Crossley G, Campbell K, Lee B, Refaat M, Saksena S, et al. His bundle pacing.JACC. 2018; 72:927–947. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2018.06.017CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar2. Huang W, Chen X, Su L, Wu S, Xia X, Vijayaraman P. 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