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Intraaortic migration of an epicardial pacing wire: percutaneous extraction
Lorenzo Guerrieri Wolf1, Raffaele Scaffa, Daniele Maselli
1Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, European Hospital, Rome, Italy. lorenzo.guerrieri@libero.it
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|July 3, 2013
Abstract:
Infrequent but serious complications have been described in association with temporary epicardial pacing wires. We describe the case of an intraaortic migration of an infected retained atrial temporary epicardial pacing wire and the transfemoral percutaneous interventional approach for its extraction.
