Bilateral sternobronchial fistula after coronary surgery – are the retained epicardial pacing wires responsible? a case report

BACKGROUND: Temporary epicardial pacing wires are routinely used during cardiac surgery; they are dependable in controlling postoperative arrhythmias and are associated with low morbitity. CASE REPORT: We report a case of sternobronchial fistula formation induced by the existence of retained epicard...

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Autores principales: Sakellaridis, Timothy, Argiriou, Michalis, Panagiotakopoulos, Victor, Charitos, Christos
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2711070/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19552802
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-4-26
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author Sakellaridis, Timothy
Argiriou, Michalis
Panagiotakopoulos, Victor
Charitos, Christos
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Argiriou, Michalis
Panagiotakopoulos, Victor
Charitos, Christos
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description BACKGROUND: Temporary epicardial pacing wires are routinely used during cardiac surgery; they are dependable in controlling postoperative arrhythmias and are associated with low morbitity. CASE REPORT: We report a case of sternobronchial fistula formation induced by the existence of retained epicardial pacing wires in a patient who underwent coronary surgery ten years ago. CONCLUSION: Reported complications of retained epicardial pacing wires are unusual. We present this case in order to include it to the potential complications of the epicardial pacing wires.
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spelling pubmed-27110702009-07-16 Bilateral sternobronchial fistula after coronary surgery – are the retained epicardial pacing wires responsible? a case report Sakellaridis, Timothy Argiriou, Michalis Panagiotakopoulos, Victor Charitos, Christos J Cardiothorac Surg Case Report BACKGROUND: Temporary epicardial pacing wires are routinely used during cardiac surgery; they are dependable in controlling postoperative arrhythmias and are associated with low morbitity. CASE REPORT: We report a case of sternobronchial fistula formation induced by the existence of retained epicardial pacing wires in a patient who underwent coronary surgery ten years ago. CONCLUSION: Reported complications of retained epicardial pacing wires are unusual. We present this case in order to include it to the potential complications of the epicardial pacing wires. BioMed Central 2009-06-24 /pmc/articles/PMC2711070/ /pubmed/19552802 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-4-26 Text en Copyright © 2009 Sakellaridis 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.
spellingShingle Case Report
Sakellaridis, Timothy
Argiriou, Michalis
Panagiotakopoulos, Victor
Charitos, Christos
Bilateral sternobronchial fistula after coronary surgery – are the retained epicardial pacing wires responsible? a case report
title Bilateral sternobronchial fistula after coronary surgery – are the retained epicardial pacing wires responsible? a case report
title_full Bilateral sternobronchial fistula after coronary surgery – are the retained epicardial pacing wires responsible? a case report
title_fullStr Bilateral sternobronchial fistula after coronary surgery – are the retained epicardial pacing wires responsible? a case report
title_full_unstemmed Bilateral sternobronchial fistula after coronary surgery – are the retained epicardial pacing wires responsible? a case report
title_short Bilateral sternobronchial fistula after coronary surgery – are the retained epicardial pacing wires responsible? a case report
title_sort bilateral sternobronchial fistula after coronary surgery – are the retained epicardial pacing wires responsible? a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2711070/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19552802
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-4-26
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