ORLANDO, Florida — Transvenous extraction of unused pacemaker or defibrillator leads poses a higher risk for death as an acute complication when it's performed by using a laser-based extraction sheath ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillators can be extracted safely and feasibly. S-ICD extraction was ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . BOSTON — The risk for complications from implantable cardioverter defibrillator lead revisions and extractions ...

Increasing use of cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) has led to a parallel rise in the number of patients requiring end‑of‑service CIED management. 1-4 As global populations age, growing ...

2 Department of Interventional Cardiology, St. John Paul II Hospital, Kraków, Poland 3 Department of Electrocardiology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, St. John Paul II Hospital, Kraków, ...

Over the study period, 406 percutaneous extraction cases were performed. Of these, 72 (17.7%) were performed in octogenarians and 334 (82.3%) were performed in younger adults. The mean age at ...

The Cardiac Electrophysiology and Pacing team at the Christian Medical College (CMC) here has successfully performed its first laser-assisted extraction of pacemaker leads [wires]. According to a ...

Pacemaker lead extraction procedures have been introduced at Mater Dei Hospital. The Department of Cardiology over the past three weeks carried out the new procedure for the extraction of pacemakers ...