Letter in response to the original article: ‘‘Evaluation of femoral approach to coronary sinus catheterisation in electrophysiological and ablation procedures: Single centre experience’’ authored by Osama Abdel Atty, Mohamed Morsy and Mark M. Gallagher (Journal of the Saudi Heart Association, Volume 23, Issue 4, October 2011, pp. 213–216)

The authors present data from their centre regarding cannulating the coronary sinus by the femoral venous approach. As the author correctly points out, this approach has become increasingly feasible with the use of long sheaths such as the Swartz SL3 sheath (Daig Corp., Minnetonka, MN, USA) as has been previously demonstrated.