Cardiac strangulation, a rare complication of epicardial pacemaker leads during growth.
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Cardiac strangulation, a rare complication of epicardial pacemaker leads during growth.
A six year old boy with an epicardial pacing lead since infancy presented with thoracic pain triggered by movement. The pain was thought to be musculoskeletal, but two weeks later he collapsed and died in ventricular fibrillation. Necropsy showed strangulation of the ventricular apex by the epicardial lead.
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عنوان ژورنال: Heart
سال: 1997
ISSN: 1355-6037
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.77.3.288