Wire In Pigtail cathEteR ThRoUgh Snare Twice (WIPER TRUST) technique for grasping leads without free ends in transvenous lead extraction.

Yuhei Kasai, Junji Morita, Takayuki Kitai, Takuya Haraguchi, Tsutomu Fujita, Kazuhiro Satomi

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Article in HeartRhythm case reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

The Snare-Assisted Intravascular Lead-to-Wire Conversion technique for venous access preservation during transvenous lead extraction in venous occlusion.HeartRhythm case reports · 2026
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6 authors.

Yuhei KasaiDepartment of Cardiology, Asia Medical Group, Sapporo Heart Center, Sapporo Cardiovascular Clinic, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.

Junji MoritaDepartment of Cardiology, Asia Medical Group, Sapporo Heart Center, Sapporo Cardiovascular Clinic, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.

Takayuki KitaiDepartment of Cardiology, Asia Medical Group, Sapporo Heart Center, Sapporo Cardiovascular Clinic, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.

Takuya HaraguchiDepartment of Cardiology, Asia Medical Group, Sapporo Heart Center, Sapporo Cardiovascular Clinic, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.

Tsutomu FujitaDepartment of Cardiology, Asia Medical Group, Sapporo Heart Center, Sapporo Cardiovascular Clinic, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.

Kazuhiro SatomiDepartment of Cardiology, Tokyo Medical University, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.

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0.014-in guidewireLead with inaccessible endsNeedle’s eye snarePigtail catheterTandem approachTransvenous lead extractionWire TRUST technique

Identifiers

PMID41333260

DOI10.1016/j.hrcr.2025.07.005

PMCPMC12666931

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