Percutaneous extraction of a fractured permanent pacemaker lead with no free end.
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.
Sochman
Jan
J
Clinic of Cardiology, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Videnska 1958/9, 140-21 Prague, Czech Republic. jan.sochman@medicon.cz
Peregrin
Jan H
JH
Bytesnik
Jan
J
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000497:Alloys; D020878:Device Removal; D004567:Electrodes, Implanted; D004868:Equipment Failure; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial; D012804:Sick Sinus Syndrome / Q000628:therapy*
D000497:Alloys; C013616:nitinol