Improvement to a lead for vascular catheterisation

Abstract

Abstract The present invention relates to a lead and more particularly a lead for cardiac catheterisation. A lead according to the present invention includes at one end two electrodes for detection and/or stimulation 20, 22, a body 5 terminating at one end a plurality of orifices 341 to 348 made in the wall of the lead in the vicinity of these electrodes, in order to allow passage of a plurality of metal needles 281 to 288 capable of being plugged, by extending out of this orifice, into a cardiac tissue, these needles being connected by one end to one pole of an apparatus delivering an electric shock in order to necrose the tissue zone surrounding the His' bundle (band).

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