Twiddler Syndrome without Lead Dislodgment Discovered by Remote Monitoring
Author(s) -
Catherine M. Champagne,
Nicolas Dognin,
Franck Molin,
Christian Steinberg,
François Philippon,
J. Sarrazin,
Gilles O’Hara,
Isabelle Nault,
Karine Roy,
Benoît Plourde,
L. Blier,
Jean Champagne
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
case reports in cardiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.106
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 2090-6412
pISSN - 2090-6404
DOI - 10.1155/2021/8816524
Subject(s) - medicine , lead (geology) , displacement (psychology) , cardiology , surgery , geology , psychology , geomorphology , psychotherapist
Twiddler syndrome is an uncommon yet dangerous phenomenon usually resulting in lead displacement with loss of capture of cardiac implantable electronic devices. In this case report, we present an interesting case of Twiddler syndrome without lead dislodgment which was detected by an alert triggered by an increase in impedance on remote monitoring.
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