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Can the AngioVac aspiration system combined with a mechanical sheath safely and effectively remove ICD lead vegetations in a GUCH patient via a totally peripheral approach?
Can the AngioVac aspiration system combined with a mechanical sheath safely and effectively remove ICD lead vegetations in a GUCH patient via a totally peripheral approach?
The combination of the AngioVac aspiration system and a mechanical sheath offers a feasible, totally peripheral approach for extracting infected ICD leads with vegetations in complex congenital heart disease patients.
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Successful peripheral extraction in complex ACHD CIED-IE; extends technical options but leaves open generalizability.
AngioVac system (AngioDynamics) has already proved to be a useful tool in the treatment of thrombotic and endocarditic formations concerning the venous district. Herein, the AngioVac aspiration system combined with the bidirectional rotational Evolution mechanical sheath lead extraction was used for an effective and safety cardiac-device-related-infective-endocarditis removal in a grown-up congenital heart disease patient through a totally peripheral approach.
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