Just received the advanced copy of the new edition. It should be available by September 😊

A patient of mine declined my recommendation to take the COVID vaccine because she thought it has an 'electronic chip' but interestingly in the same visit she accepted (without any hesitation) my recommendation to implant a much bigger electronic chip (aka 'pacemaker').
#Epeeps

Lead dwell time is not prohibitive for TLE in patients with CIED-related infection.

In our study, TLE of leads >20-yr-old had 90% complete success & 96% clinical success rates.

Outcome of transvenous lead extraction of leads older than 20 years onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jc…