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Extraction of an Intravascularized Pacemaker Lead—A New Approach to an Unusual Problem
Author(s) -
SCHWARTZ ALAN B.,
FUNG GORDON,
LEWIS ARTHUR,
HUNTER GLENN,
VERLENDEN WILLIAM,
KLAUSNER STEVEN C.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
pacing and clinical electrophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.686
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1540-8159
pISSN - 0147-8389
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1984.tb05651.x
Subject(s) - medicine , endocardium , superior vena cava , permanent pacemaker , cardiology , catheter , lead (geology) , bacteremia , vein , surgery , geomorphology , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , geology , antibiotics
A new catheter approach to removing an intravuacularized, nonfunctional pacemaker lead which was fixed at both distal (right ventricular endocardium) and proximal (brachiocephalic vein/superior vena cava) ends is described. This case also emphasizes the need for removal of an old pacemaker lead that caused bacteremia in a patient with a prosthetic aortic valve even when infection was presumed to be cured.