Delayed cardiac perforation by defibrillator lead placed in the right ventricular outflow tract resulting in massive pericardial effusion

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1646-1649

  Lau, Ernest W ^a   Shannon, Heather J ^a   McKavanagh, Peter ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blunt chest trauma; Defibrillator lead; Delayed cardiac perforation; ICD; Pericardial effusion; Tamponade

Indexed keywords

CEFALEXIN; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; WARFARIN;

AGED; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLLAPSE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEFIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; DIZZINESS; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART PACING; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HOLTER MONITORING; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MALE; P WAVE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; SINUS RHYTHM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOEMBOLISM; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

AGED; DEFIBRILLATORS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; HEART INJURIES; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; TIME FACTORS; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 56049109986     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2008.01240.x     Document Type: Article

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