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. 2023 Sep 11;15(9):e45048. doi: 10.7759/cureus.45048

Table 10. Comparing patients with leads implanted over 10 years (Group A) to leads within 10 years (Group B).

  Year of publication  Number of patients with leads extracted Number of leads extracted Number of patients with infection indication / (%) Number of patients with non-infection indication / (%)  Clinical success rate Procedure success rate Major complication  number/ (%)  Minor complication number / (%)
Ząbek et al. [22] 2023 Patient with old leads (A): 46; patient with younger leads (B): 272 Group A: 66; Group B: 439  Group A: 9 (20.6%); Group B: 92 (33.8%) Group A: 37 (80.4%); Group B: 180 (66.2%)   Group A: 44 (95.6%); Group B: 271 (99.6%) Group A: 3 (6.5%); Group B: 4 (1.5%) Group A: 1 (2.2%), Group B: 5 (1.8%)
Segreti et al. [23] 2019 Patient with old leads (A): 422; patient with younger leads (B): 3,088    Group A: 331 (78.81%); Group B: 1,534 (49.82%) Group A: 91 (21.56%); Group B: 1,554 (50.32%) Group A: 379 (89.81%); Group B: 2,983 (96.60%)   Group A: 23 (5.45%); Group B: 72 (2.33%) Group A: 35 (8.29%); Group B: 139 (4.50%)
Pecha et al. [28] 2021 154 patients with old leads  362 98 56 149 (96.8%) 141 (91.6%) 5 (3.3%) 2 (1.3%)