Should all dysfunctional high-voltage leads be extracted? Results of a single-centre long-term registry

Europace

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1764-1770

  Bode, Frank ^a   Himmel, Frank ^a   Reppel, Michael ^a   Mortensen, Kai ^a   Schunkert, Heribert ^a   Wiegand, Uwe K H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b SANA KLINIKUM OFFENBACH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Implantable cardioverter defibrillator; Lead adandonment; Lead defect; Lead extraction; Long term outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DEFIBRILLATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIGH VOLTAGE LEAD; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DEVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBCLAVIAN VEIN; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

AGED; COMORBIDITY; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; DEVICE REMOVAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 84870219966     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eus202     Document Type: Article

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