title: A challenging case of transvenous lead extraction.
abstract: A 72-year-old male patient with a 7-year history of cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) implantation was admitted to our clinic with pocket infection. One year prior to this admission, he had undergone an unsuccessful extraction procedure at another clinic, during which the older broken ICD lead had been left in place and a newer ICD lead implanted via the same pocket. The newer and older leads were extracted by mechanical dilator sheath and needle eye snare respectively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Kocaeli Derince Training and Research Hospital, Kocaeli, Turkey. aksutolga@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Tolga
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Aksu
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Kocaeli Derince Training and Research Hospital, Kocaeli, Turkey.
authors.forename: Tümer Erdem
authors.initials: TE
authors.lastname: Güler
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Kocaeli Derince Training and Research Hospital, Kocaeli, Turkey.
authors.forename: Kazım Serhan
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Özcan
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Kocaeli Derince Training and Research Hospital, Kocaeli, Turkey.
authors.forename: İsmail
authors.initials: İ
authors.lastname: Erden
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D017147:Defibrillators, Implantable / Q000009:adverse effects*; D020878:Device Removal / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial / Q000009:adverse effects*; D011475:Prosthesis Failure; D016459:Prosthesis-Related Infections; D012086:Reoperation