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Extraction of looped transvenous pacing leads to reduce tricuspid regurgitation
Author(s) -
Montgomery Jay A.,
Ellis Christopher R.,
Crossley George H.
Publication year - 2017
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/pace.13085
Subject(s) - medicine , regurgitation (circulation) , tricuspid valve , cardiology , tricuspid valve insufficiency , transvenous pacing , lead (geology) , geomorphology , geology
Transvenous leads are a known source of iatrogenic tricuspid regurgitation. It is commonly held that extraction of chronic pacing and defibrillator leads will not reduce this, due to the inevitable trauma to the valve associated with the procedure. We demonstrate three cases of clinically significant reductions in tricuspid regurgitation after extraction of leads that were looped across the tricuspid valve.