Percutaneous extraction of a fractured permanent pacemaker lead with no free end
Language English Country United States Media print
Document type Case Reports, Journal Article
PubMed
16176545
DOI
10.1111/j.1540-8159.2005.00205.x
PII: PACE205
Knihovny.cz E-resources
- MeSH
- Foreign Bodies therapy MeSH
- Electrodes, Implanted * MeSH
- Pacemaker, Artificial * MeSH
- Humans MeSH
- Device Removal MeSH
- Equipment Failure MeSH
- Aged, 80 and over MeSH
- Aged MeSH
- Alloys MeSH
- Sick Sinus Syndrome therapy MeSH
- Check Tag
- Humans MeSH
- Male MeSH
- Aged, 80 and over MeSH
- Aged MeSH
- Publication type
- Journal Article MeSH
- Case Reports MeSH
- Names of Substances
- nitinol MeSH Browser
- Alloys MeSH
From various points of view abandoned or displaced permanent pacemaker leads should be extracted in indicated cases using a broad spectrum of catheter-based techniques. We describe a relatively easy extraction procedure of almost the whole pacemaker lead, which broke near the pulse generator and migrated into right-heart chambers; so both ends were indwelling. The described procedure was undertaken using a simple homemade nitinol-based extractor.
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