Wandering permanent pacemaker generators in children: a case series

INTRODUCTION: Epicardial permanent pacemaker generators are implanted some times in the abdominal wall in pediatric age groups. CASE PRESENTATION: Three permanent epicardial pacemakers that migrated in an unusual manner producing intraabdominal complications are reported. CONCLUSION: The different c...

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Autores principales: Al Sabti, Hilal, Menon, Raj Gopal, Maddali, Madan Mohan, Valliattu, John
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2396653/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18485236
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-163
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author Al Sabti, Hilal
Menon, Raj Gopal
Maddali, Madan Mohan
Valliattu, John
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description INTRODUCTION: Epicardial permanent pacemaker generators are implanted some times in the abdominal wall in pediatric age groups. CASE PRESENTATION: Three permanent epicardial pacemakers that migrated in an unusual manner producing intraabdominal complications are reported. CONCLUSION: The different clinical presentations of pacemaker migration in the pediatric age groups are highlighted and a few suggestions are made for avoiding such a complication.
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spelling pubmed-23966532008-05-28 Wandering permanent pacemaker generators in children: a case series Al Sabti, Hilal Menon, Raj Gopal Maddali, Madan Mohan Valliattu, John J Med Case Reports Case Report INTRODUCTION: Epicardial permanent pacemaker generators are implanted some times in the abdominal wall in pediatric age groups. CASE PRESENTATION: Three permanent epicardial pacemakers that migrated in an unusual manner producing intraabdominal complications are reported. CONCLUSION: The different clinical presentations of pacemaker migration in the pediatric age groups are highlighted and a few suggestions are made for avoiding such a complication. BioMed Central 2008-05-18 /pmc/articles/PMC2396653/ /pubmed/18485236 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-163 Text en Copyright © 2008 Al Sabti et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Wandering permanent pacemaker generators in children: a case series
title Wandering permanent pacemaker generators in children: a case series
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title_fullStr Wandering permanent pacemaker generators in children: a case series
title_full_unstemmed Wandering permanent pacemaker generators in children: a case series
title_short Wandering permanent pacemaker generators in children: a case series
title_sort wandering permanent pacemaker generators in children: a case series
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2396653/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18485236
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