CIED Infections

CIEDs include pacemakers, implantable cardioverter-defibrillators, and cardiac resynchronisation therapy devices. CIED infections have increased substantially over the past decade. Infected CIED patients have high 1-year all-cause mortalit…

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CIEDs include pacemakers, implantable cardioverter-defibrillators, and cardiac resynchronisation therapy devices. CIED infections have increased substantially over the past decade. Infected CIED patients have high 1-year all-cause mortality. More than half of all lead extractions in the ELECTRA study were prompted by CIED infection.