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Shogo Sakamoto1, Kenji Baba1, Shiho Wakasa1
1Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Bellland General Hospital, Naka-ku, Sakai, Osaka, Japan.
Abstract:
Transvenous lead extraction has been increasingly recognized as a safe and effective method of lead extraction, but there are only few references for extracting leads migrating outside the heart. We present a successful extraction of a fractured pacemaker lead from the spermatic vein using several approaches and multiple tools.
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