Impact of hospital lead extraction volume on management of cardiac implantable electronic device-associated infective endocarditis: does size really matter?
Sandra Howell, Alphonsus Lieuw, Christopher Aldo Rinaldi · 2025
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Sandra Howell, Alphonsus Lieuw, and Christopher Aldo Rinaldi wrote a 2025 commentary on infections of implanted heart devices. Pacemakers and similar devices can become infected, and the infection can reach the heart lining, a dangerous condition. Removing the device wires through a vein greatly lowers the risk of death, especially when done early.
Yet only a small share of patients receive that removal, the authors note, citing data showing about 11.5 percent. Large studies show removal succeeds in over 96 percent of cases, with better results at busy specialist centres. The commentary discusses new work on whether a hospital’s removal volume changes how patients are managed. It argues that understanding why treatment is underused is critical to saving lives.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Sandra Howell, Alphonsus Lieuw, Christopher Aldo Rinaldi |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 8 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |