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Indian Heart J
; 67 Suppl 3: S92-6, 2015 Dec.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-26995446
RESUMO
The decision to retrieve chronically implanted abandoned leads and trapped intracardiac devices percutaneously has been difficult and highly controversial. We present two case reports in which electrophysiological ablation catheter was used to retrieve infected abandoned pacemaker lead and trapped permacatheter (permacath) in right ventricle. We could avert major cardiovascular surgeries in both the patients by simply modifying the traditionally used techniques for extraction of intracardiac devices.