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Percutaneous Extraction of a Fractured Permanent Pacemaker Lead with No Free End
Author(s) -
SOCHMAN JAN,
PEREGRIN JAN H.,
BYTESNIK JAN
Publication year - 2005
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.1540-8159.2005.00205.x
Subject(s) - medicine , extractor , permanent pacemaker , lead (geology) , percutaneous , extraction (chemistry) , pulse generator , catheter , surgery , telecommunications , chemistry , chromatography , geomorphology , process engineering , computer science , jitter , engineering , geology
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.