Right Atrial Perforation Secondary to Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Insertion | Zendy

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Right Atrial Perforation Secondary to Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Insertion

Author(s) -

Nam T. Tran,

Adam Zivin,

D. Mozaffarian,

Riyad Karmy-Jones

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

canadian respiratory journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.675

H-Index - 53

eISSN - 1916-7245

pISSN - 1198-2241

DOI - 10.1155/2001/257641

Subject(s) - medicine , implantable cardioverter defibrillator , hemopneumothorax , hemothorax , percutaneous , fibrin glue , surgery , perforation , cardiology , pneumothorax , punching , materials science , metallurgy

Implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) placements can be associated with serious complications. This paper reports a patient in whom percutaneous placement of an ICD resulted in a hemopneumothorax. This was due to an active fixation lead that perforated the right atrial wall and injured the adjacent lung parenchyma. The hemothorax was drained thoracoscopically, and the atrial injury was covered with fibrin glue.

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