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A safe and simple method for management of frozen pacemaker leads
Muharrem Güldal1, Ali Timuçin Altin, Aydan Ongun Ozdemir
1Department of Cardiology, Ankara University Medical Faculty, Ankara, Turkey. guldal@medicine.ankara.edu.tr
Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology : PACE
|December 17, 2003
Abstract:
The traction of frozen leads from the generator header is difficult in some patients. This report describes the authors' experience with frozen leads in which the lead pins were removed by pushing with the tip of screwdriver from the hole created with a scalpel blade at the closed end of the generator header.