Novel Use of a Rotating Mechanical Dilator Sheath for S-ICD Lead Extraction.

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Cardiac Arrythmia Service, Corrigan Minehan Heart Center, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Published: September 2021

A 53-year-old man with a subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (S-ICD) presented with inappropriate shocks. He underwent device extraction, and the lead was freed using a rotating mechanical dilator sheath. As patients with S-ICDs get older, extractions will become more complicated and more common. We have described a novel method of S-ICD lead extraction. ().

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