TY - JOUR
T1 - Successful extraction of right ventricular lead remnants using the FlexCath® steerable sheath
AU - Tanawuttiwat, Tanyanan
AU - Cheng, Alan
AU - Rickard, John
AU - Chow, Grant V.
AU - Sciortino, Christopher M.
AU - Brinker, Jeffrey
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - In patients undergoing laser lead extraction, incomplete or failed lead removal occur in over 3 % of leads. Because the current available tools have limitations in reaching the right ventricle (RV), the procedure becomes challenging when the lead breaks and its fragments remain lodged in the RV. We describe two cases in which the FlexCath® steerable sheath, normally used in cryoballoon catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation, was useful in directing a bioptome to right ventricular lead fragments and thus allowing for complete lead extraction.
AB - In patients undergoing laser lead extraction, incomplete or failed lead removal occur in over 3 % of leads. Because the current available tools have limitations in reaching the right ventricle (RV), the procedure becomes challenging when the lead breaks and its fragments remain lodged in the RV. We describe two cases in which the FlexCath® steerable sheath, normally used in cryoballoon catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation, was useful in directing a bioptome to right ventricular lead fragments and thus allowing for complete lead extraction.
KW - Lead extraction
KW - Steerable sheath
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U2 - 10.1007/s10840-015-0038-9
DO - 10.1007/s10840-015-0038-9
M3 - Article
C2 - 26335103
AN - SCOPUS:84957442505
VL - 45
SP - 107
EP - 110
JO - Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology
JF - Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology
SN - 1383-875X
IS - 1
ER -