The Evolution mechanical dilator sheath can be successfully used for the percutaneous extraction of chronically implanted ICD electrodes.
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May support Evolution sheath for chronic ICD lead extraction; hypothesis-generating, should not yet change practice.
For removing the electrodes, manual simple traction may be useful and various methods have been used in extraction for chronically implanted electrodes. We report the case of successful percutaneous extraction of implantable cardioverter defibrillator electrode with Evolution mechanical dilator sheath.
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Güngör et al. (2016) studied this question.
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