Highlights a rare and fatal complication of inadvertent transarterial pacemaker lead insertion into the left ventricle during replacement surgery.
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Clinicians should verify lead position beyond fluoroscopy in pacemaker procedures; this case leaves open optimal detection strategies for rare arterial misplacement.
Lepore et al. (1987) studied this question.
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