PSEUDO-MALPOSITION OF PERMANENT PACEMAKER ELECTRODES CAUSED BY PNEUMOTHORAX

Authors
MUKERJI V GRADY TP ALPERT MA NIKAS DJ YANCEY TH
Citation
V. Mukerji et al., PSEUDO-MALPOSITION OF PERMANENT PACEMAKER ELECTRODES CAUSED BY PNEUMOTHORAX, Vascular surgery, 29(2), 1995, pp. 141-145
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Surgery,"Cardiac & Cardiovascular System","Peripheal Vascular Diseas
Journal title
Vascular surgery → ACNP
ISSN journal
00422835
Volume
29
Issue
2
Year of publication
1995
Pages
141 - 145
Database
ISI
SICI code
0042-2835(1995)29:2<141:POPPEC>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
A fifty-two-year-old man received a dual-chamber pacemaker with approp riate positioning of the leads via the right subclavian vein. About fo ur days later he was noted to have developed a large right-sided pneum othorax. The roentgenogram showed displacement of the heart to the lef t and apparent displacement of the pacemaker leads with loss of the no rmal ''J'' configuration of the atrial electrode. On resolution of the pneumothorax, the electrode configurations returned to normal.