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Case Reports
. 2015 Aug 6;1(6):461-463.
doi: 10.1016/j.hrcr.2015.07.007. eCollection 2015 Nov.

Reuse of a 20-year-old lead: An abandoned lead reactivated

Breno Bernardes de Souza  1 , Noel G Boyle  1
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Case Reports

Reuse of a 20-year-old lead: An abandoned lead reactivated

Breno Bernardes de Souza et al. HeartRhythm Case Rep. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Abandoned lead; ICD, implantable cardioverter-defibrillator; Lead extraction; Lead malfunction; Lead reuse; P/S, pace/sense; Pacing failure; RV, right ventricular.

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Reconfiguration of patient’s cardiac device system. A: In 1994, patient had a dual-chamber pacemaker implanted with a right atrial (RA) and a right ventricular (RV) pace/sense (P/S) lead. B: In 1999, the device was upgraded to a dual-chamber implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD), a single-coil ICD lead was implanted, and the RV P/S lead was capped and abandoned. C: In 2014, after evidence of fracture in the P/S part of the ICD lead, the previously abandoned RV P/S lead was uncapped and reactivated and the P/S part of the ICD lead was abandoned.
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