Infection of Retained Defibrillator Lead Fragment after Heart Transplant
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Infection of Retained Defibrillator Lead Fragment after Heart Transplant
A 59-year old heart transplant recipient was admitted due to continuous pain in her left axilla. A purulent collection was found at the site of prior defibrillator placement, where a remnant proximal segment of an electric lead was found. Two years before, the patient had had pocket infection treated with revision, but without device extraction. The remnant lead was eventually removed transveno...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Clinics and Practice
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2039-7283
DOI: 10.4081/cp.2017.857