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Pacemaker Twiddler's Syndrome
Author(s) -
CHERNILAS JOSEPH Z.,
BILFINGER THOMAS V.,
VLAY STEPHEN C.
Publication year - 1996
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.1540-8159.1996.tb03295.x
Subject(s) - medicine , ventricular outflow tract , rotation (mathematics) , cardiology , pulse (music) , outflow , optics , geometry , mathematics , physics , detector , meteorology
Twiddler's syndrome may result from pulse generator manipulation or from spontaneous rotation due to movement around an inadequately secured electrode. In this case, the electrode became coiled in the right ventricular outflow tract.