Abstract
Two patients with intravenous pacemaker electrodes presented dificulties of electrode removal. A 51 year old female with sick sinus syndrome had two fractured intravenous electrodes. Continuous traction of the lead was performed in vain for its removal. Under cardiopulmonary bypass, two leads were pulled out. One of these two leads could not be removed perfectly, because a part of lead tightly adhered to the subclaviari vein. The other case was a 67 year old male with complete A V block. The patient had infected two leads, showing intermittent fever. They were removed under bypass surgery.
