Complications of permanent dual-chamber pacing such as late purulent pacemaker pocket infection with broken and looped atrial lead, complicated by pulmonary embolism after transvenous lead removal: A case report

Polskie Archiwum Medycyny Wewnetrznej

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 322-326

  Małecka, Barbara ^a   Kutarski, Andrzej ^b   Pietura, Radosław ^b   Lelakowski, Jacek ^a   Za̧bek, Andrzej ^a   Bednarek, Jacek ^a   Szczerbo Trojanowska, Małgorzata ^b  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Complications; Percutaneus lead extraction; Permanent pacing; Purulent pacemaker pocket infection

Indexed keywords

ANTIVITAMIN K; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BLEEDING; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEVICE INFECTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; PLEURA DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 45249113950     PISSN: 00323772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.20452/pamw.402     Document Type: Article

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