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Pacemaker lead thrombosis treated with atrial thrombectomy and biventricular pacemaker and defibrillator insertion
David B Coleman1, Dana M DeBarr, David L Morales
1Department of Surgery, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York, USA.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|October 30, 2004
Abstract:
Right atrial thrombosis and pulmonary embolism are infrequent complications of pacemaker insertion. We report a patient with a large mobile thrombus on an endocardial DDD pacing lead and probable pulmonary embolism. We believe that this is the first case of pacemaker lead thrombosis in which treatment included insertion of an epicardial biventricular pacemaker and an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator.