Population
1 woman with multiple pulmonary emboli secondary to a large right atrial clot around a permanent transvenous…
Design
Case_report
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High mortality from pericatheter thrombosis in pacemaker patients with heart failure warrants vigilance; this case series leaves open anticoagulation benefits pending prospective data.
Symptomatic pericatheter thrombosis around permanent pacemakers carries a high mortality rate, suggesting a potential benefit of chronic anticoagulation in pacemaker patients with concurrent congestive heart failure.
Kinney et al. (1979) studied this question.
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