title: Lead Extraction: "Drag Through" Technique creator: Gupta, Anoop K. subject: Indian Pacing and Electrophysiology Journal description: The goal of extraction techniques of chronic pacemaker and defibrillator leads is to present an approach that is successful in extracting all leads and minimizes or eliminates complications. To extract a chronically implanted intravascular device, the device must be separated from the encapsulating inflammatory tissue. Three ablation techniques are currently used: mechanical, laser and electrosurgical. publisher: Indian Pacing and Electrophysiology Group contributor: Singh, Balbir contributor: Lokhandwala, Yash contributor: Francis, Johnson contributor: Gupta, Anup date: 2002-10 type: Journal (Paginated) type: PeerReviewed format: text/html identifier: http://cogprints.org/4296/1/anoop3.htm identifier: Gupta, Anoop K. (2002) Lead Extraction: "Drag Through" Technique. [Journal (Paginated)] relation: http://cogprints.org/4296/