Background and aims Over the past decades, high-volume lead extraction centres gained broad experience in advanced ...

In patients with vegetative endocarditis related to cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs), extracting the lead along with percutaneous mechanical debulking via vacuum aspiration of ...

Lead extraction is a specialized procedure used to remove wires from pacemakers or defibrillators when they become infected, ...

BLOOM (TAMPA) – For those who wear pacemakers or ICD devices for their heart, the leads or wires that connect the devices to the heart can become infected or malfunction over time, which makes it ...

Cardiac lead extraction is safer in high volume centres, according to the largest study of contemporary practice in Europe published today in European Heart Journal. Extraction in a low volume centre ...

ATLANTA -- For patients with cardiovascular implantable electronic device (CIED)-associated infections, a shorter course of antibiotics after lead extraction may be noninferior to a longer course for ...

Only 15 of 1,086 (1.4%) cardiac device patients who underwent TTE were found to have thrombus adhered to a device lead without the diagnosis of endocarditis. These 15 patients comprised our study ...