Percutaneous extraction of an abandoned coiled pacing lead

Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 1999 Jul;22(7):1100-2. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1999.tb00579.x.

Abstract

Abandoning redundant pacing leads has been an accepted practice in most cases. Late migration of a lead is a rare, unpredictable, and potentially lethal complication of this approach and requires immediate removal. We report the case of an atrial pacing lead that had migrated and was found coiled in the right atrium. It was removed by a snare catheter via a femoral approach.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Cardiac Catheterization / instrumentation*
  • Cineangiography
  • Electrodes, Implanted*
  • Equipment Design
  • Foreign-Body Migration / diagnostic imaging
  • Foreign-Body Migration / therapy*
  • Heart Atria* / diagnostic imaging
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Pacemaker, Artificial*