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An atrial screw-in lead dislodged and migrated to the ventricle one year after pacemaker implantation in a 53-year-old woman.
Clinicians should be aware of the rare possibility of late atrial screw-in lead dislodgement and migration to the ventricle.
Rare late atrial lead migration warrants vigilance in follow-up; this case leaves open incidence and prevention data.
We report a rare case of a 53-year-old woman with a dislodged atrial screw-in lead that migrated to the ventricle 1 year after pacemaker implantation. While such an event is quite unusual, we should be aware of its possibility.
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Nakazato et al. (1999) studied this question. An atrial screw-in lead dislodged and migrated to the ventricle one year after pacemaker implantation in a 53-year-old woman.
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