Finders Keepers: A Case of the Rogue Pacing Wire

We report a middle-aged woman with frequent episodes of pre-syncope due to complete heart block. She had no previous history of anticoagulation or steroid therapy, and underwent temporary pacemaker insertion. In spite of only mild symptoms, she was found to have a right ventricle perforation on CT....

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Autores principales: Malik, Asmara A, Malik, Jahanzeb
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7495961/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32953332
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9823
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description We report a middle-aged woman with frequent episodes of pre-syncope due to complete heart block. She had no previous history of anticoagulation or steroid therapy, and underwent temporary pacemaker insertion. In spite of only mild symptoms, she was found to have a right ventricle perforation on CT. After placement of permanent lead, the patient was discharged home in a stable condition with no further complaints on follow-up.
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spelling pubmed-74959612020-09-18 Finders Keepers: A Case of the Rogue Pacing Wire Malik, Asmara A Malik, Jahanzeb Cureus Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery We report a middle-aged woman with frequent episodes of pre-syncope due to complete heart block. She had no previous history of anticoagulation or steroid therapy, and underwent temporary pacemaker insertion. In spite of only mild symptoms, she was found to have a right ventricle perforation on CT. After placement of permanent lead, the patient was discharged home in a stable condition with no further complaints on follow-up. Cureus 2020-08-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7495961/ /pubmed/32953332 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9823 Text en Copyright © 2020, Malik et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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topic Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7495961/
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