IHJ Cardiovascular Case Reports (May 2020)

Mysterious migration of a retained pacing wire

  • Prafull Sharma,
  • Vivek Singh Guleria,
  • Prashant Bharadwaj,
  • Rajat Datta,
  • Vijay Vohra

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 2
pp. 75 – 76

Abstract

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An uncut epicardial pacing wire migrates and reaches pulmonary artery after 4 years. As if this was not enough it gets infected and leads to pyrexia of unknown origin. We herein report this case and discuss retrieval of migrated pacing wire.

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