Lead Explantation Late After Atrial Perforation
- 1 August 1996
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wiley in Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology
- Vol. 19 (8), 1268-1269
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-8159.1996.tb04200.x
Abstract
This report describes the case of a patient in whom atrial perforation with penetration of the thoracic wall was diagnosed 2 years after the implantation of an Accufix lead. Despite this complication, atrial detection in the bipolar mode and ventricular pacing were normal. Digital fluoroscopy detected a fracture with extrusion of a short segment of the retention wire. The rupture of the retention wire might have been the result, but was not the cause of the perforation.Keywords
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