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[Tricuspid stenosis after pacemaker implantation without evidence of bacterial endocarditis. A case report]
Carmen Garrote1, María Luisa Fidalgo, Ignacio Iglesias-Garriz
1Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital de León, León, Spain.
Revista Espanola De Cardiologia
|September 19, 2002
Abstract:
Tricuspid stenosis related to endocardial pacemaker leads is uncommon. We report the case of a patient with severe tricuspid stenosis documented 15 years after the implantation of a permanent DDD pacemaker for symptomatic congenital heart block. The atrial and ventricular leads both had a loop at the level of the tricuspid valve that may have caused endothelial damage and, eventually, tricuspid stenosis.