An Unpleasant Legacy: Infected Abandoned Leads

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¹ Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China. Electronic address: cplau@hku.hk.
² Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China; Department of Medicine, Shenzhen Hong Kong University Hospital, Shenzhen, China; Shenzhen Institutes of Research and Innovation, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.

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Chu-Pak Lau et al. JACC Clin Electrophysiol. 2018 Feb.

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. 2018 Feb;4(2):209-211.

doi: 10.1016/j.jacep.2017.10.007. Epub 2017 Nov 29.

¹ Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China. Electronic address: cplau@hku.hk.
² Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China; Department of Medicine, Shenzhen Hong Kong University Hospital, Shenzhen, China; Shenzhen Institutes of Research and Innovation, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.

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Keywords: abandoned leads; lead capping; lead extraction.

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Impact of Abandoned Leads on Cardiovascular Implantable Electronic Device Infections: A Propensity Matched Analysis of MEDIC (Multicenter Electrophysiologic Device Infection Cohort).
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