Twiddler’s Syndrome

Twiddler’s syndrome refers to a rare condition in which a pacemaker or automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (AICD) malfunctions due to coiling of the device in the skin pocket and resultant lead displacement. This image is the chest radiograph (CXR) of a 54-year-old male who presented to...

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Autores principales: Lesnick, Jason A., Cooper, Benjamin L., Doshi, Pratik B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2019
Materias:
Images in Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6682220/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31404310
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2019.4.42123
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description Twiddler’s syndrome refers to a rare condition in which a pacemaker or automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (AICD) malfunctions due to coiling of the device in the skin pocket and resultant lead displacement. This image is the chest radiograph (CXR) of a 54-year-old male who presented to the emergency department with chest pain five months after his AICD was placed. The CXR shows AICD leads coiled around the device and the absence of leads in the ventricle consistent with Twiddler’s syndrome. Patients with twiddler’s syndrome should be admitted for operative intervention.
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spelling pubmed-66822202019-08-09 Twiddler’s Syndrome Lesnick, Jason A. Cooper, Benjamin L. Doshi, Pratik B. Clin Pract Cases Emerg Med Images in Emergency Medicine Twiddler’s syndrome refers to a rare condition in which a pacemaker or automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (AICD) malfunctions due to coiling of the device in the skin pocket and resultant lead displacement. This image is the chest radiograph (CXR) of a 54-year-old male who presented to the emergency department with chest pain five months after his AICD was placed. The CXR shows AICD leads coiled around the device and the absence of leads in the ventricle consistent with Twiddler’s syndrome. Patients with twiddler’s syndrome should be admitted for operative intervention. University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2019-05-20 /pmc/articles/PMC6682220/ /pubmed/31404310 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2019.4.42123 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Lesnick et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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