Lead perforation: An uncommon cause of chest pain in a patient with pacemaker

A subcutaneous finger cardioverter-defibrillator system removal under local anesthesia

“…The evolution of devices in serious cardiac rhythm pathology management has led progressively to the development of devices for the treatment of bradycardia, ventricular arrhythmia, and heart failure and for the prevention of sudden cardiac arrest leading to delivery of pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) and cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) plus ICD (CRT-D) and to the recent subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (S-ICD) [23][24][25][26][27]. Infectious complications leading also to endocarditis [1,8,[28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35] and non-infectious complications [9,21,23,[36][37][38][39] often necessitating removal [1,2,8,[39][40][41][42][43][44][45] affect patient wellbeing also leading to psychological difficulty increase [46][47][48][49][50][51][52] in the emerging scenario of concomitant problems and diseases . The modern ICDs in the market deliver a maximum energy of 35 to 41 J in relation to the model using single-coil leads or dual-coil leads.…”

Cardiac rehabilitation in pacing patient complications: an increasing scenario requiring a collaborative vision of a multi-disciplinary treatment team

“…The evolution of devices in serious cardiac rhythm pathology management has led progressively to the development of devices for the treatment of bradycardia, ventricular arrhythmia, and heart failure and for the prevention of sudden cardiac arrest leading to the delivery of pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) and cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) plus ICD (CRT-D) and to the recent subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (S-ICD) [23][24][25][26][27]. Infectious complications leading also to endocarditis [1,8,[28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36] and non-infectious complications [9,21,23,[37][38][39][40] often necessitating removal [1,2,8,[40][41][42][43][44][45][46] affect patients' wellbeing also leading to psychological difficulties increase [47][48][49][50][51][52][53] in the emerging scenario of concomitant problems and diseases and in patients also needing of device revision and upgrade. Moreover, the modern ICDs in the market deliver maximum energy of 35 to 41 J in relation to the model using single-coil leads or dual-coil leads.…”

Incidence of acute kidney injury in reported cases of lead related cardiac perforation

“…Lead related cardiac perforation is rare; however, it is associated with significant morbidity and mortality as described in a few articles recently in the International Journal of Cardiology [1][2][3][4][5].…”