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The Postcardiotomy Syndrome Following Transvenous Pacemaker Insertion
Author(s) -
SNOW MATTHEW E.,
AGATSTON ARTHUR S.,
KRAMER H. COLEMAN,
SAMET PHILIP
Publication year - 1987
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.1540-8159.1987.tb06049.x
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , surgery
We describe a syndrome of fever, pericarditis, and symptomatic pericardial effusion beginning 2 months after transvenous insertion of a permanent pacemaker in a 75‐year‐old woman. The syndrome improved dramalicaily following pericardiocentesis and resolved after subsequent administration of indomethacin. Although right ventricuiar perforation during pacemaker insertion was not recognized, inadvertent perforation leading to the postcardiotomy syndrome is postulated.