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Successful Removal of a Severed Transvenous Pacemaker Electrode
Author(s) -
GOULD LAWRENCE,
MAGHAZEH PAUL,
GIOVANNIELLO JOSEPH
Publication year - 1981
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 - 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1981.tb06254.x
Subject(s) - medicine , catheter , surgery , femoral vein , transvenous pacing , permanent pacemaker , complication , embolization , vein
The ease and simplicity of the transvenous approach to permanent pacing continue to be among its greatest advantages. However in a small proportion of transvenously paced patients complications can occur, A rare complication is an incompletely removed pacing catheter with subsequent embolization to more central parts of the cardiovascular system.’This communication reports the migration of a severed transvenous pacemaker electrode and its removal from the left iliac vein with a femoral‐ventricular pigtail catheter, (PACE, Vol. 4, November‐December, 1981)