RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Cardiac strangulation, a rare complication of epicardial pacemaker leads during growth.
JF Heart
JO Heart
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Cardiovascular Society
SP 288
OP 289
DO 10.1136/hrt.77.3.288
VO 77
IS 3
A1 Eyskens, B.
A1 Mertens, L.
A1 Moerman, P.
A1 Ector, H.
A1 Daenen, W.
A1 Gewilling, M.
YR 1997
UL http://heart.bmj.com/content/77/3/288.abstract
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.