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Infection of a retained permanent epicardial pacemaker lead
1Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Japan.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|June 28, 2001
Abstract:
Infection of a retained permanent epicardial pacemaker lead rarely causes mediastinal infection. A 21-month-old boy who had undergone an arterial switch operation at day 6 of life presented with mediastinal infection 3 months after removal of the generator. Removal of the infected pacemaker leads with the inflammatory granuloma was performed under extracorporeal circulation. The mediastinal infection developed from the retained epicardial pacemaker lead infection.