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Myocardial rupture after pulling out a tined atrial electrode with continuous traction
A García-Jiménez1, C M Botana Albá, J M Gutiérrez Cortés
1Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Arquitecto Marcide, El Ferrol, Spain.
Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology : PACE
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
Transvenous traction for the removal of retained pacemaker electrodes is common practice with few reported complications. This case reports a patient with a DDD pacemaker with extruded electrodes, who died of a myocardial rupture at the atrial lead site after prolonged (i.e., after 24 hours) traction was applied.