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Severe cyanosis in a newborn after transvenous pacing wire placement
1Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Cleveland, OH 44106-6011, USA.
Pediatric Cardiology
|May 2, 1998
Abstract:
Inadvertent disruption of tricuspid valve apposition by a pacing catheter in a neonate is described. Severe cyanosis due to atrial level shunting resulted, similar to the pathophysiologic state seen in Ebstein's anomaly.