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

Table 8. Prevalence of indications, success, and complication rates of TLE.

  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 / (%)
Tułecki et al. (2021) [19] 2021 1500   230 (15.33%) 1,270 (84.6%) 98.93% 96.13% 33 (2.20%) 115 (7.67%)
Monsefi et al. (2019) [3] 2018 108 277 79 (73.1%) 27 (26.9%) 98% 98.7% 15  
Mkoko et al. (2021) [4] 2021 53 75 69.2% 30.8% 96.2% 84.6% 1 (1.9%) 1(1.9%)
Aleong et al. (2020) [13] 2020 8304 57220 9,196 (16.1%) 34,240 (59.8%)     3,298 (5.8%)  
Chung et al. (2022) [20] 2022 510 1181 387 (75.9%) 123 (24.1%) 496 (97.1%) 471 (92.4%) 9 (1.80%) 9 (1.80%)