Accepted Article This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: 10.1111/tri.12803 This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. Received Date : 10-Nov-2015 Revised Date : 11-Jan-2016 Accepted Date : 05/30/2016 Article type : Letter to the Editor Metal wires should not be abandoned inside ICD leads during heart transplantation! Laurent Bonnemains, 1,2,3 ; Therese Barbier, 1,4 and Jacques Felblinger 1,5,6 1 INSERM, IADI U947, Nancy, France 2 CHU Strasbourg, Department of cardiothoracic surgery, Strasbourg, France 3 University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France 4 Axon’Cable, Montmirail, France 5 University of Lorraine, IADI, Nancy, France 6 CHU Nancy, CICIT 1433, Nancy, France Authorship: LB, JF and TB wrote the manuscript. LB and TB collected data. TB performed the temperature measurements. All authors contributed to the manuscript critical review. Funding sources: This study was performed with the help of the PHRC-2013 program funded by the French government.