TY - JOUR AU - Castro, L. AU - Pecha, S. AU - Linder, M. AU - Vogler, J. AU - Gosau, N. AU - Meyer, C. AU - Willems, S. AU - Reichenspurner, H. AU - Hakmi, S. PY - 2017 DA - 2017/11/25 TI - The wearable cardioverter defibrillator as a bridge to reimplantation in patients with ICD or CRT-D-related infections JO - Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery SP - 99 VL - 12 IS - 1 AB - The approach to treat device infection in patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) or cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (CRT-D) is a challenging procedure. Optimal treatment is complete extraction of the infected device. To protect these patients from sudden cardiac arrest while waiting for reimplantation and to avoid recurrent infection, a wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) seems to be a valuable solution. SN - 1749-8090 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13019-017-0669-2 DO - 10.1186/s13019-017-0669-2 ID - Castro2017 ER -