• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: An indissoluble knot: An unexpected troubleshooting during Micra implantation
  • Contributor: Cipolletta, Laura; Volpato, Giovanni; Biffi, Mauro; Capucci, Alessandro
  • imprint: Wiley, 2019
  • Published in: Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1111/pace.13584
  • ISSN: 0147-8389; 1540-8159
  • Keywords: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ; General Medicine
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  • Description: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Micra is a transcatheter leadless pacing system delivered percutaneously through femoral vein access into the right ventricle. We are going to describe an initially standard procedure, with an unexpected troubleshooting at the end: the impossibility to release the device and retract the delivery due to a knot in the tether.</jats:p>