Needle biopsy of the human ventricular myocardium: Review of 54 consecutive cases

Complications of Endomyocardial Biopsy in Heart Transplant Patients: A Retrospective Study of 2117 Consecutive Procedures

“…3 In 1962, Sakakibara and Konno performed a transvenous EMB using the Konno bioptome. 4 Later, in 1974, Caves and colleagues developed a technique and instrumentation for percutaneous access, through the internal jugular vein, 5 allowing the procedure to be per-formed with only local anesthesia.…”

Critical assessment of diagnostic value of endomyocardial biopsy. Assessment of cardiac biopsy.

“…Limited thoracotomy and cardiac drill biopsy as reported by Weinberg et al (1958) and later by Sutton et al (1964) can never be considered a routine investigation even though larger quantities of tissue are obtained and inspection of the heart and coronary vessels is possible. Various forms of percutaneous needle biopsy have been reported by Sutton and Sutton (1960), Bercu et al (1964), and Shirey et al (1972) but all have been associated with various unpleasant or even dangerous complications ranging from temporary arrhythmias to cardiac tamponade, occurring in 8 out of 198 patients in the last series. Intracardiac needle biopsy of the ventricular septum as reported by Bulloch et al (1965) was relatively free of complications and supplied quite satisfactory material for ultrastructural studies.…”

Potential of the Right Ventricular Endomyocardial Biopsy to Diagnose and Assist in the Management of Congestive Heart Failure: Insights From Recent Clinical Trials

“…Since the initial report by Sutton in 1956 1 describing a transthoracic needle approach in obtaining myocardial tissue, the technique has undergone certain modifications. Currently, the most common approach is to obtain myocardial tissue from the right ventricle by a transvascular approach using the internal jugular vein.…”