PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Eyskens, B.
AU  - Mertens, L.
AU  - Moerman, P.
AU  - Ector, H.
AU  - Daenen, W.
AU  - Gewilling, M.
TI  - Cardiac strangulation, a rare complication of epicardial pacemaker leads during growth.
AID  - 10.1136/hrt.77.3.288
DP  - 1997 Mar 01
TA  - Heart
PG  - 288--289
VI  - 77
IP  - 3
4099  - http://heart.bmj.com/content/77/3/288.short
4100  - http://heart.bmj.com/content/77/3/288.full
SO  - Heart1997 Mar 01; 77
AB  - 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.