Successful coronary sinus left ventricular lead extraction 9 years postimplantation using the wire ThRoUgh Snare Twice (wire TRUST) technique.
Yuhei KasaiJunji MoritaTakuya HaraguchiTakayuki KitaiTakuya OkadaKota SuzukiRyuto YamazakiYumetsugu MunakataJungo KasaiTsutomu FujitaPublished in: Clinical case reports (2024)
The newly-proposed tandem approach, Wire ThRoUgh Snare Twice (Wire TRUST) is effective for grasping a lead with inaccessible ends. This case report shows that Wire TRUST can also enable successful extraction of a left ventricular lead by iteratively grasping and repositioning to the distal portion of the lead.