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One Stage Side‐to‐Side Replacement of Infected Pulse Generators and Leads
Author(s) -
NANDYALA RAMAVATHI,
PARSONNET VICTOR
Publication year - 2006
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.1540-8159.2006.00359.x
Subject(s) - medicine , side effect (computer science) , surgery , computer science , programming language
Infected and contaminated cardiac pulse generators and leads must be removed entirely in order to effect a cure. We have shown through our experience with 68 consecutive cases that explantation of the offending system and replacement of a new device on the opposite side can be safely accomplished in one sitting—a side‐to‐side replacement—as long as there is appropriate case selection. There were no early or late infections of the new operative site.