It was reported that the patient with this cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (crt-d) system exhibited infection.Reportedly, the right ventricular (rv) lead was explanted successfully, nonetheless, while performing the left ventricular (lv) lead extraction, the lead was fractured and the coil unraveled; hence, the lv lead was abandoned for the time being.Moreover, after explanting the right atrial (ra) lead, the anesthesiologist noticed an effusion in the right atrium and a cardiopulmonary resuscitation (cpr) was performed as the patient exhibited cardiac arrest.An open-heart procedure was done to fix the effusion.There were no additional adverse patient effects reported.This explanted device will not be returned.
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