The utility of inflammatory markers in diagnostic work-up of pacemaker and defibrillator infections in patients referred for transvenous lead extraction Authors: Andrzej Ząbek, Mateusz Ulman, Katarzyna Holcman, Krzysztof Boczar, Maciej Dębski, Magdalena Kostkiewicz, Jacek Lelakowski, Barbara Małecka Article type: Original article Received: April 6, 2019. Accepted: August 19, 2019. Published online: August 19, 2019. ISSN: 0022-9032 e-ISSN: 1897-4279 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), allowing third parties to download articles and share them with others, provided the original work is properly cited, not changed in any way, distributed under the same license, and used for noncommercial purposes only. For commercial use, please contact the journal office at kardiologiapolska@ptkardio.pl.