Wire ThRoUgh Snare Twice (Wire TRUST) technique: a novel method to grasp a lead with inaccessible ends as a supportive femoral approach for transvenous lead extraction
Yuhei Kasai MD1, Takuya Haraguchi MD1, Junji Morita MD1, Takuya Okada BSc2, Takashi Tamura BSc2, Yumetsugu Munakata BSc2, Takayuki Kitai MD1, Masanaga Tsujimoto MD1, Jungo Kasai BSc3, Tsutomu Fujita MD1
  1. Department of Cardiology, Asia Medical Group, Sapporo Heart Center, Sapporo CardioVascular Clinic, Sapporo, Japan
  2. Department of Clinical Engineering, Asia Medical Group, Sapporo Heart Center, Sapporo CardioVascular Clinic, Sapporo, Japan
  3. Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Correspondence to: Dr. Yuhei Kasai, MD
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Funding Sources: The authors have no funding sources to disclose.
Disclosures: The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.