Türk Kardiyoloji Derneği Arşivi (Mar 2015)

Delayed right-ventricular perforation by pacemaker lead; a rare complication in a 12-year-old girl

  • Hayrettin Hakan Aykan,
  • Alper Akın,
  • İlker Ertuğrul,
  • Tevfik Karagöz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5543/tkda.2015.98372
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 43, no. 2
pp. 185 – 187

Abstract

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Developments in the diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart diseases have led to an increase in the need for intracardiac pacemaker and implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) implantation. Various complications related to these interventions can be seen in the short term (pneumothorax, pericardial effusion, cardiac perforation, etc…) and in the long term (infection, subclavian vein thrombosis, sensing and pacing problems, battery erosion and cardiac perforation). In this report, we present a rare case of cardiac perforation occurring 2 years after pacemaker implantation.

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