Infection of Retained Defibrillator Lead Fragment after Heart Transplant

A 59-year old heart transplant recipient was admitted due to continuous pain in her left axilla. A purulent collection was found at the site of prior defibrillator placement, where a remnant proximal segment of an electric lead was found. Two years before, the patient had had pocket infection treate...

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Autores principales: Durante-Mangoni, Emanuele, Vitrone, Martina, Mattucci, Irene, Caprioli, Vincenzo, Maiello, Ciro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2017
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5391520/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28458812
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/cp.2017.857

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5391520/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28458812
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/cp.2017.857

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