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Percutaneous Pacemaker Lead-Transsecting Catheter |
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| Authors: | JOACHIM WITTE WOLFGANG MUNSTER |
| Affiliation: | Department of Medicine, Charité Hospital, Humboldt University, Berlin, German Democratic Republic. |
| Abstract: | We describe the development and successful use of a percutaneous lead-transsection catheter. It was used in two patients in whom removal of chronically implanted atrial pacing leads could not be accomplished by traction. |
| Keywords: | pacemaker infection lead transsection |