Heart Rhythm
Volume 7, Issue 7 , Pages 890-897, July 2010

Effectiveness of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator lead coil treatments in facilitating ease of extraction

  • Joseph W. Hackler, DO

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, Medicine Institute, Cleveland, Ohio
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  • Zhiyuan Sun, MS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland, Ohio
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  • Bruce D. Lindsay, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
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  • Bruce L. Wilkoff, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
    • Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio
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  • Mark J. Niebauer, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
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  • Patrick J. Tchou, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
    • ,
  • Mina K. Chung, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
    • Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests and correspondence: Mina K. Chung, M.D., Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Desk J2-2, Cleveland, Ohio 44195

Received 10 February 2010; accepted 21 April 2010. published online 26 April 2010.

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 Supported by National Institutes of Health/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute grant no. R01 HL090620 (to MKC). BDL participates in industry-sponsored research with Medtronic, Boston Scientific, St. Jude Medical, and Biotronik. BLW participates in industry-sponsored research with Medtronic, Boston Scientific, St. Jude Medical, Biotronik, and Spectranetics; and he receives modest consulting fees from Medtronic, St. Jude Medical, Boston Scientific, and Spectranetics and significant consulting fees from LifeWatch. MJN participates in industry-sponsored research with Medtronic, Boston Scientific, St. Jude Medical, Biotronik, and Zoll and has received honoraria from Zoll. PJT participates in industry-sponsored research with Medtronic, Boston Scientific, St. Jude Medical, and Biotronik. MKC participates in industry-sponsored research with Medtronic, Boston Scientific, St. Jude Medical, and Biotronik. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not reflect the views of the funding agencies.

PII: S1547-5271(10)00395-4

doi:10.1016/j.hrthm.2010.04.020

Heart Rhythm
Volume 7, Issue 7 , Pages 890-897, July 2010

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