In patients with vegetative endocarditis related to cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs), extracting the lead along with percutaneous mechanical debulking via vacuum aspiration of ...

Nevertheless, despite the recommendations to not routinely consider advanced age as one of the most important risk factors for periprocedural complications of transvenous lead extraction (TLE), ...

Typical balloon placement and pretreatment sites relative to pacing/defibrillation leads. Photo Credit: J Am Coll Cardiol EP. Central Illustration (adapted). Pacemaker and defibrillator leads encased ...

Cardiac lead extraction is safer in high volume centres, according to the largest study of contemporary practice in Europe published today in European Heart Journal. Extraction in a low volume centre ...

This content is provided by MedStar Washington Hospital Center. Surgically implanted cardiac devices are quite common with more than one million cardiac pacemakers implanted every year worldwide – ...

Infections associated with pacemaker or implantable defibrillator systems, even when limited to the subcutaneous pocket, generally call for removal of the pulse-generator and leads. But alternative ...

Roughly one out of every five patients with an implantable device who is undergoing lead extraction will have incidental thrombi found on the transvenous leads, new prospective data show. The clots ...