A Case Report of Rare Complications after Epicardial Permanent Pacemaker Implantation in an Infant: Airway Compression, Skin Necrosis, and Bowel Perforation

Insertion of an epicardial pacemaker is a useful treatment for pediatric patients with an abnormal heart rhythm. However, there are limitations and concerns when implanting epicardial pacemakers in infants and neonates due to their small body size. We report a patient who experienced rare complicati...

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Autores principales: Kim, Woojung, Kwak, Jae Gun, Min, Jooncheol, Kim, Woong-Han
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7155185/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32309208
http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/kjtcs.2020.53.2.82
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author Kim, Woojung
Kwak, Jae Gun
Min, Jooncheol
Kim, Woong-Han
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description Insertion of an epicardial pacemaker is a useful treatment for pediatric patients with an abnormal heart rhythm. However, there are limitations and concerns when implanting epicardial pacemakers in infants and neonates due to their small body size. We report a patient who experienced rare complications after implantation of a permanent pacemaker.
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spelling pubmed-71551852020-04-17 A Case Report of Rare Complications after Epicardial Permanent Pacemaker Implantation in an Infant: Airway Compression, Skin Necrosis, and Bowel Perforation Kim, Woojung Kwak, Jae Gun Min, Jooncheol Kim, Woong-Han Korean J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Case Report Insertion of an epicardial pacemaker is a useful treatment for pediatric patients with an abnormal heart rhythm. However, there are limitations and concerns when implanting epicardial pacemakers in infants and neonates due to their small body size. We report a patient who experienced rare complications after implantation of a permanent pacemaker. The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2020-04-05 2020-04-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7155185/ /pubmed/32309208 http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/kjtcs.2020.53.2.82 Text en Copyright © The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2020. All right reserved. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Kim, Woojung
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Min, Jooncheol
Kim, Woong-Han
A Case Report of Rare Complications after Epicardial Permanent Pacemaker Implantation in an Infant: Airway Compression, Skin Necrosis, and Bowel Perforation
title A Case Report of Rare Complications after Epicardial Permanent Pacemaker Implantation in an Infant: Airway Compression, Skin Necrosis, and Bowel Perforation
title_full A Case Report of Rare Complications after Epicardial Permanent Pacemaker Implantation in an Infant: Airway Compression, Skin Necrosis, and Bowel Perforation
title_fullStr A Case Report of Rare Complications after Epicardial Permanent Pacemaker Implantation in an Infant: Airway Compression, Skin Necrosis, and Bowel Perforation
title_full_unstemmed A Case Report of Rare Complications after Epicardial Permanent Pacemaker Implantation in an Infant: Airway Compression, Skin Necrosis, and Bowel Perforation
title_short A Case Report of Rare Complications after Epicardial Permanent Pacemaker Implantation in an Infant: Airway Compression, Skin Necrosis, and Bowel Perforation
title_sort case report of rare complications after epicardial permanent pacemaker implantation in an infant: airway compression, skin necrosis, and bowel perforation
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7155185/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32309208
http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/kjtcs.2020.53.2.82
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