title: To cut or to cap, that is the question: an engineering perspective.
authors.affiliation: Medtronic, Inc., Leads Research Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. rick.mcvenes@medtronic.com
authors.forename: Rick
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: McVenes
authors.forename: Guillaume
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Girard
mesh_terms: D001672:Biocompatible Materials; D001698:Biomedical Engineering; D020878:Device Removal; D004574:Electromagnetic Fields; D004868:Equipment Failure; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial
chemical_list: D001672:Biocompatible Materials