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Mohammad Hossein Mandegar1, Farideh Roshanali, Helia Farokhzad
1Cardiac Surgery Department, Day General Hospital, Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran.
Abstract:
A 21-year-old man who had suffered an episode of complete heart block 2 months earlier and thus undergone pacemaker implantation presented with syncope. Echocardiography showed cardiac tamponade and raised the suspicion of lead penetration. The effusion was drained. Multi-sliced CT scan confirmed that the right aspect of the pacemaker wire was extracardiac, causing the cardiac tamponade.
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