Highlights the rare but severe complication of inadvertent arterial placement of a pacemaker lead into the left ventricle, which can cause embolic stroke.
Alerts clinicians to embolic stroke risk from inadvertent arterial pacemaker lead placement; leaves open incidence and prevention strategies.
A pacemaker lead in the left ventricle is a rare complication of implantation. Recognition of this complication is important because thromboembolic events are associated. We report the first case, to our knowledge, of a patient who had a permanent pacemaker implanted via the left subclavian artery to the left ventricle, which is documented by electrocardiography, chest radiography, thoracic echocardiography, and transesophageal echocardiography.
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