The impact of complications related to transvenous lead extraction on the 12-month prognosis: Insights from the SILCARD registry.

Background: Scant data exist on long-term outcomes, including death, in patients with complica-tions related to transvenous lead extractions (TLE).

Aims: We sought to characterize the population and examine the outcomes including risk factors for in-hospital complications and 12-month mortality and morbidity related to the complications in a large administrative database of patients undergoing TLE.

Results: From the database of patients hospitalized for cardiovascular diseases and included in the Silesian Cardiovascular Database (SILCARD) registry, we selected the admissions of those who underwent TLE according to the appropriate ICD-9 codes.