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Abstract
This is the first study of the use of a laser sheath to remove chronic transvenous implantable cardioverter-defibrillator leads. A 16Fr laser sheath was used to extract 14 leads from 11 patients, 6 of whom had undergone failed previous extraction attempts using conventional tools.Entities:
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Year: 1998 PMID: 9832113 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9149(98)00620-1
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Am J Cardiol ISSN: 0002-9149 Impact factor: 2.778