Sochman Jan, Peregrin Jan H, Bytesnik Jan
Clinic of Cardiology, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Videnska 1958/9, 140-21 Prague, Czech Republic.
Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2005 Sep;28(9):1000-1. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2005.00205.x.
From various points of view abandoned or displaced permanent pacemaker leads should be extracted in indicated cases using a broad spectrum of catheter-based techniques. We describe a relatively easy extraction procedure of almost the whole pacemaker lead, which broke near the pulse generator and migrated into right-heart chambers; so both ends were indwelling. The described procedure was undertaken using a simple homemade nitinol-based extractor.