Key result
A permanent demand transvenous pacemaker electrode was associated with the formation of a large thrombus on the electrode and subsequent pulmonary infarction in a 74-year-old woman.
Population
1 patient (74-year-old woman) with intermittent 2nd-degree heart block progressing to complete heart block.
Design
Case_report
Authors
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Alerts clinicians to rare pacemaker lead thrombus causing infarction; single case leaves incidence and prevention open.
Case Report (n=1)
This case report documents a rare complication of thrombus formation on a transvenous pacemaker electrode leading to pulmonary infarction.
Sidd et al. (1969) conducted a case report in Heart block (n=1). Transvenous pacemaker electrode was evaluated on Thrombus formation and pulmonary infarction. A permanent demand transvenous pacemaker electrode was associated with the formation of a large thrombus on the electrode and subsequent pulmonary infarction in a 74-year-old woman.
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