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1 patient with a displaced ventricular pacemaker lead causing right ventricular and left lung parenchymal…
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Case_report
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May require CT after negative echocardiography to diagnose lead perforation; hypothesis-generating for atypical, complication-free cases.
This case demonstrates that ventricular pacemaker lead perforation of the heart and lung can occur without disastrous complications like tamponade or pneumo-hemothorax, and may require CT for definitive diagnosis when echocardiography is unrevealing.
Selçuk et al. (2006) studied this question.
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