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Internal Mammary Arterial Injury from Lead Extraction: A Clinically Subtle yet Important Complication of Implantable Device Removal

Percutaneous implantable device extraction has increased in recent years and is associated with small but significant risk. Arteriovenous fistula formation is an uncommon complication of this procedure. We report two cases where lead extraction was complicated by an arteriovenous fistula between the...

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Autores principales: Cruz, Cesar, Langberg, Jonathan, Lerakis, Stamatios, Veeraswamy, Ravi, Lloyd, Michael
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3099199/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21629794
http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2011/408640