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Late perforation of a defibrillator lead managed by percutaneous, intravenous extraction

Author(s) -

Baskar Sekar,

Luke Tapp,

Shajil Chalil,

Howard Marshall,

Francisco Leyva

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

ep europace

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.119

H-Index - 102

eISSN - 1532-2092

pISSN - 1099-5129

DOI - 10.1093/europace/eun376

Subject(s) - medicine , perforation , chest pain , lead (geology) , percutaneous , implantable cardioverter defibrillator , cardiac resynchronization therapy , cardiology , cardiomyopathy , surgery , heart failure , ejection fraction , punching , materials science , geomorphology , metallurgy , geology

We report the case of a patient with ischaemic cardiomyopathy who underwent cardiac resynchronization therapy with defibrillator back-up. He re-presented 3 weeks later with chest pain, having received two shocks. We describe a case of late perforation with the Riata lead causing inappropriate shocks.

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