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Percutaneous Extraction of an Abandoned Coiled Pacing Lead
Author(s) -
LICKFETT LARS,
JUNG WERNER,
PIZZULLI LUCIANO,
WOLPERT CHRISTIAN,
LÜDERITZ BERNDT
Publication year - 1999
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.1540-8159.1999.tb00579.x
Subject(s) - medicine , lead (geology) , percutaneous , complication , cardiac pacing , catheter , surgery , cardiology , geomorphology , geology
Abandoning redundant pacing leads has been an accepted practice in most cases. Late migration of a lead is a rare, unpredictable, and potentially lethal complication of this approach and requires immediate removal. We report the case of an atrial pacing lead that had migrated and was found coiled in the right atrium. It was removed by a snare catheter via a femoral approach.