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Case Reports
Value of a Joint Cardiac Surgery-Cardiac Electrophysiology Approach to Lead Extraction.
- Breno Bernardes de Souza, Peyman Benharash, Fardad Esmailian, Jason Bradfield, and Noel G Boyle.
- UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, UCLA Health System, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California.
- J Card Surg. 2015 Nov 1; 30 (11): 874-6.
AbstractWe report three cases of vascular injury during laser lead extractions, requiring urgent surgical correction. Immediate sternotomy and cardiopulmonary bypass were possible because of an institutional collaboration where cardiac surgeon and cardiac electrophysiologist jointly perform these cases, and all patients survived. We propose this joint approach is ultimately the best option for patients undergoing lead extraction. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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