Typical balloon placement and pretreatment sites relative to pacing/defibrillation leads. Photo Credit: J Am Coll Cardiol EP. Central Illustration (adapted). Pacemaker and defibrillator leads encased ...

This content is provided by MedStar Washington Hospital Center. Surgically implanted cardiac devices are quite common with more than one million cardiac pacemakers implanted every year worldwide – ...

Infections associated with pacemaker or implantable defibrillator systems, even when limited to the subcutaneous pocket, generally call for removal of the pulse-generator and leads. But alternative ...

Less than one out of every eight patients with infective endocarditis and a cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) underwent recommended transvenous lead removal/extraction over a recent 4-year ...