[Extraction of the electrodes by continuous traction--an effective procedure in treating pacemaker wearers with secondary inflammatory complications].

Using a continuous traction method we succeeded in extracting 24 bacterially contaminated and fixed in the heart electrodensounds around 4 years after pacemaker implantation without complications worth mentioning in 7.5 days (1-27). The tissue attached to 20 sound points contained 9 times portions of the myocardium, 9 times remainders of the endocardium, 12 times particles of the connective tissue and 17 times suppurative inflammatory tissue.

[Development of pacemaker implantation].

The Morgagni-Adams-Stokes syndrome and the possibility of the excitability of a heart standing still by electric current are already known for a long time. Nevertheless, only in 1952 first success in the treatment in man was seen. In 1958 the first transistorized, working with battery cardiac pacemakers were implanted.

[Multicenter study of the results of the extraction of transvenously implanted heart-pacemaker electrodes using continuous traction].

The continuous traction of firmly grown-in collar electrodes from the right ventricle is a simple technique poor in complications with a high success rate, which can be recommended taking into consideration the indications in the failure of the immediate manual extraction and which can be performed in every centre for cardiac pacemakers. Apart from the consideration of adequate informations in literature this evidence above all depends on the evaluation of data of 29 cases from 10 centres for cardiac pacemakers.