Infectious mass debulking in lead-associated endocarditis with a percutaneous aspiration system.

Roland Heck Leonard Pitts Julius Kaemmel Leonhard Wert Volkmar Falk Gerhard Hindricks Christoph T Starck

Published in: Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology (2024)

A reduction of the infective burden by percutaneous debulking of lead vegetations might improve survival in patients with an active BSI.

Keyphrases

ultrasound guided
neoadjuvant chemotherapy
minimally invasive
radiofrequency ablation
locally advanced
lymph node
risk factors
free survival
squamous cell carcinoma
rectal cancer