Laser-assisted lead extraction: the European experience
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Laser-assisted lead extraction: the European experience.
AIMS The aim of this study is to investigate the safety and effectiveness of Excimer laser-assisted lead extraction in Europe. The final European multi-centre study experience is presented. METHOD AND RESULTS The Excimer is a cool cutting laser (50 degrees C) with a wavelength of 308 nm. The energy is emitted from the tip of a flexible sheath and is absorbed by proteins and lipids, 64% of the...
متن کامل[Initial experience with excimer laser-assisted pacemaker and defibrillator lead extraction].
Explantation of chronically implanted pacemaker or defibrillator leads can be technically demanding. We present the results of the first 44 leads extracted with excimer laser sheaths in 25 patients with a median lead implantation time of 7 years (range: 2 to 20 years). Indications for extraction were lead fracture in 17 patients, pocket infection in 4, septicemia in 2, and lead endocarditis in ...
متن کاملLaser lead extraction in the octogenarian patient.
BACKGROUND In the United States, patients aged >75 years are the most rapidly growing segment in the population, with an expected increase of 126% by 2050. These patients account for >70% of the pacemakers and up to two thirds of the implantable cardioverter-defibrillators implanted annually. Our aim was to explore the clinical outcomes of device complications in the octogenarian population. ...
متن کاملClinical study of the laser sheath for lead extraction: the total experience in the United States.
The laser sheath uses optical fibers, delivering pulsed ultraviolet excimer laser light, to vaporize fibrotic tissue binding intravenous cardiac leads to the vein or heart wall during lead extraction from the implant vein. The total investigational experience with laser sheaths is reported. During the period from October 1995 to December 1999, 2,561 pacing and defibrillator leads were treated i...
متن کاملLaser-assisted extraction of a pacing lead with a supraclavicular course
A 68-year-old man with a right-sided pacemaker originally implanted as a ventricular-only device more than 25 years before presentation and later upgraded to a dual-chamber device was admitted with a fever. Blood cultures grew methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Transesophageal echocardiography revealed a vegetation on a pacing lead. The patient was not pacemaker dependent. Because of ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: EP Europace
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1532-2092,1099-5129
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eum098