Patent ID: 7493173

Claim:
An electrode line for intraluminal or intracardiac use for connection to an electrostimulation device such as a cardiac pacemaker, defibrillator, cardioverter or the like, comprising: an elongate, flexurally soft electrode line body having a proximal end, at which an electrical connecting means for making an electrical connection to an electrostimulation device is arranged, and a distal end, at which or in the proximity of which is arranged at least one distal electrode which is electrically connected to the electrical connecting means and has an electrically conducting outside surface, and in which there is provided a lumen for receiving a guide wire or the like, which extends from a proximal opening in the region of the proximal end of the electrode line body to a distal opening in the region of the distal end of the electrode line body, wherein the distal opening is of such a configuration and arrangement that a guide wire can issue from the lumen through the distal opening, wherein the at least one distal electrode and the distal opening in the region of the distal end of the electrode line body are arranged in mutually laterally displaced relationship with respect to a cross-sectional orientation of the electrode line body so that a guide wire issuing from the distal opening is guided in laterally displaced relationship past the distal electrode, and the distal opening is arranged without cross-sectional displacement beside a proximal end of the distal electrode or is arranged with a cross-sectional displacement in displaced relationship distally with respect to the proximal end of the distal electrode, wherein the distal electrode faces substantially in a direction forward of the distal end.