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Ghostbusters should come back to lead extraction arena in order to fight with ghosts: authors reply

2016; Oxford University Press; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/europace/euw308

1532-2092

Maria Lucia Narducci, Antonio Di Monaco, Gemma Pelargonio, Emanuele Leoncini, Stefania Boccia, Roberto Mollo, Francesco Perna, Gianluigi Bencardino, F Pennestrì, Giancarlo Scoppettuolo, Antonio G. Rebuzzi, Pasquale Santangeli, Luigi Di Biase, Andrea Natale, Filippo Crea,

Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments

We appreciate the interest of Dr Canpolat in our article.1,2 Persistence of residual fibrous tissue after transvenous lead extraction (TLE) has been described variously over the last few years.3–5 Focusing on pathophysiological mechanism for development of ‘ghost’, Andreas et al. described the histopathology of an inhomogeneous highly mobile structure in the right atrium after TLE, as organized thrombus in a case report.6 Immunohistochemical analysis of 17 extracted leads revealed that a fibrous capsule surrounding the lead was …