Current practice in transvenous lead extraction: a European Heart Rhythm Association EP Network Survey

Maria Grazia Bongiorni; Carina Blomstrom-Lundqvist; Charles Kennergren; Nikolaos Dagres; Laurent Pison; Jesper Hastrup Svendsen; Angelo Auricchio

doi:10.1093/europace/eus166

Current practice in transvenous lead extraction: a European Heart Rhythm Association EP Network Survey

Maria Grazia Bongiorni^*, Carina Blomstrom-Lundqvist, Charles Kennergren, Nikolaos Dagres, Laurent Pison, Jesper Hastrup Svendsen, Angelo Auricchio

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Abstract

Current practice with regard to transvenous lead extraction among European implanting centres was analysed by this survey. Among all contacted centres, 164, from 30 countries, declared that they perform transvenous lead extraction and answered 58 questions with a compliance rate of 99.9. Data from the survey show that there seems to be an overall increasing experience of managing various techniques of lead extraction and a widespread involvement of cardiac centres in this treatment. Results and complication rates seem comparable with those of main international registries. This survey gives an interesting snapshot of lead extraction in Europe today and gives some clues for future research and prospective European registries.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	783-786
Journal	EP Europace
Volume	14
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/europace/eus166
Publication status	Published - Jun 2012

Keywords

Cardiac implantable electronic device
Complications
Infection
Lead extraction

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