Looking for lead adhesions while planning for transvenous lead extraction

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Editorial

Thomas D Callahan IV. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2022 May.

. 2022 May;33(5):1041-1044.

doi: 10.1111/jce.15436. Epub 2022 Mar 15.

¹ Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

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Keywords: TLE; Transvenous lead extraction; adhesion; planning; prediction.

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The role of preoperative venography in predicting the difficulty of a transvenous lead extraction procedure.
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