Twiddler's Syndrome: Case Report and Literature Review

Twiddler's syndrome is a rare complication after pacemaker implantation usually caused by patient manipulation with generator. We describe a case of 70-year-old female patient with pacemaker who was admitted to the neurological clinic with syncope and suspicion for neurological disease. After n...

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Autores principales: Tahirovic, Elnur, Haxhibeqiri-Karabdic, Ilirijana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5965012/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29876029
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/HEARTVIEWS.HEARTVIEWS_89_17
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description Twiddler's syndrome is a rare complication after pacemaker implantation usually caused by patient manipulation with generator. We describe a case of 70-year-old female patient with pacemaker who was admitted to the neurological clinic with syncope and suspicion for neurological disease. After neurological diagnostic tests that were negative and consultation with a cardiologist, Twiddler's syndrome was diagnosed.
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spelling pubmed-59650122018-06-06 Twiddler's Syndrome: Case Report and Literature Review Tahirovic, Elnur Haxhibeqiri-Karabdic, Ilirijana Heart Views Case Report Twiddler's syndrome is a rare complication after pacemaker implantation usually caused by patient manipulation with generator. We describe a case of 70-year-old female patient with pacemaker who was admitted to the neurological clinic with syncope and suspicion for neurological disease. After neurological diagnostic tests that were negative and consultation with a cardiologist, Twiddler's syndrome was diagnosed. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC5965012/ /pubmed/29876029 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/HEARTVIEWS.HEARTVIEWS_89_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Heart Views http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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