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Successful Laser‐Assisted Percutaneous Extraction of Four Pacemaker Leads Associated with Large Vegetations
Author(s) -
NGUYEN KHANHTRANG,
NEESE PAUL,
KESSLER DAVID J.
Publication year - 2000
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.1540-8159.2000.tb00940.x
Subject(s) - medicine , percutaneous , extraction (chemistry) , cardiology , surgery , radiology , chromatography , chemistry
A man with four endocardial pacemaker leads and two vegetations (1.5 cm and 1 cm) underwent successful percutaneous laser‐assisted lead extraction. Although this procedure was complicated by embolization to a left pulmonary arterial branch, the patient recovered without sequelae. This article reviews the literature on lead extraction associated with large vegetations.