JACC: Case Reports (Oct 2019)

Hybrid Lead Extraction Technique

  • Eriko Hasumi, MD, PhD,
  • Katsuhito Fujiu, MD, PhD,
  • Uehara Masae, MD, PhD,
  • Yasuhiro Hoshino, MD, PhD,
  • Osamu Kinoshita, MD, PhD,
  • Minoru Ono, MD, PhD,
  • Issei Komuro, MD, PhD

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 3
pp. 281 – 286

Abstract

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This report presents a new hybrid lead extraction technique combined with transatrial laser lead extraction and surgical removal of calcified lesions in a 50-year-old man with superior vena cava syndrome and bilateral subclavian vein occlusion caused by an abandoned lead, which had been infected for 11 years. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.)

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