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Pocket infection complicating inadvertent transarterial permanent pacing. Successful percutaneous explantation
J A Trigano1, F Paganelli, S Fekhar
1Department of Cardiology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Nord, University of Marseille, School of Medicine, Marseille, France.
Clinical Cardiology
|July 20, 1999
Abstract:
This report describes a patient admitted for the treatment of a pocket infection occurring 5 months after a dual chamber pacemaker implantation. The ventricular lead had been inadvertently placed into the left ventricle through the arterial system. After careful examination using transesophageal echocardiography and left heart angiogram, successful percutaneous extraction was performed without complication.