Population
1 87-year-old Bangladeshi female with a single chamber ventricular pacemaker implanted for complete heart…
Design
Case_report
Follow-up
7 weeks post-implantation
Authors
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Clinicians should consider twiddler's syndrome in unexplained pacemaker failure; this case leaves open the need for larger series on prevention.
Pacemaker-twiddler's syndrome is an uncommon but important cause of pacemaker failure that can be diagnosed with simple investigations and treated with lead repositioning and patient counselling.
Salahuddin et al. (2016) studied this question.
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