Management Strategies When Implanted Cardioverter Defibrillator Leads Fail: Survey Findings

Background: Defibrillator implanters have adopted different approaches to managing failures of multicomponent implanted cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) leads. Although recent publications identified single‐component failures as common mechanisms of failure, there are no published data regarding how best to manage these failures.

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