The use of laser lead extraction sheath in the presence of supra-cardiac occlusion of the central veins for cardiac implantable electronic device lead upgrade or revision

• Sameer Al-Maisary ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yemendoctor@yahoo.com

  Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Baden-Würrtemberg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8758-1722

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• Gabriele Romano ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gabriele Romano, Matthias Karck, Raffaele De Simone, Jamila Kremer

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Baden-Würrtemberg, Germany

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• Matthias Karck ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gabriele Romano, Matthias Karck, Raffaele De Simone, Jamila Kremer

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Baden-Würrtemberg, Germany

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• Raffaele De Simone ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gabriele Romano, Matthias Karck, Raffaele De Simone, Jamila Kremer

  Roles Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Baden-Würrtemberg, Germany

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• Jamila Kremer

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gabriele Romano, Matthias Karck, Raffaele De Simone, Jamila Kremer

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Baden-Würrtemberg, Germany

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