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
    • ,
  • Zhiyuan Sun, MS

      Affiliations

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

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
    • ,
  • 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
    • ,
  • Mark J. Niebauer, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
    • ,
  • 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.

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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.

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doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2010.04.020

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

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