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Permanent Pacemaker Lead Entrapment: Role of the Transesophageal Echocardiography
Author(s) -
CHAMPAGNE JEAN,
POIRIER PAUL,
DUMESNIL JEAN G.,
DESAULNIERS DENIS,
BOUDREAULT JR,
O'HARA GILLES,
GILBERT MARCEL,
PHILIPPON FRANÇOIS
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
pacing and clinical electrophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.686
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1540-8159
pISSN - 0147-8389
DOI - 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2002.01131.x
Subject(s) - medicine , regurgitation (circulation) , tricuspid valve , complication , cardiology , perforation , lead (geology) , tricuspid valve insufficiency , surgery , punching , materials science , geomorphology , metallurgy , geology
CHAMPAGNE, J., et al. : Permanent Pacemaker Lead Entrapment: Role of the Transesophageal Echocardiography. Numerous complications induced by pacemaker electrodes have been reported. Although mild tricuspid regurgitation is a well‐documented complication of transvenous right ventricular pacemaker leads secondary to abnormal valve coaptation, severe tricuspid regurgitation resulting from perforation of the tricuspid valve itself is a rare complication. This case report details a patient with severe tricuspid regurgitation secondary to impingement of the tricuspid valve by a permanent pacing lead that was diagnosed by transesophageal echocardiography. Surgical repair was advocated because of symptomatic significant tricuspid regurgitation.