Total laser cycles-a measure of transvenous lead extraction difficulty.
Ossama ElsaidDavid M O'SullivanSteven ZweibelEdmond M CroninPublished in: Journal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology : an international journal of arrhythmias and pacing (2018)
TLC showed significant correlation with known predictors of difficulty during TLE using the laser sheath. TLC is an objective method to report the difficulty of TLE and could usefully be reported in future series of laser lead extractions.