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Retained uncut epicardial pacing wire migrates to the pulmonary artery after 4 years, causing infection.
Demonstrates a rare but serious complication of retained epicardial pacing wires migrating to the pulmonary artery and causing infection.
Clinicians should consider migrated epicardial wires in PUO differentials; this case leaves open incidence, risk factors, and optimal management strategies.
An uncut epicardial pacing wire migrates and reaches pulmonary artery after 4 years. As if this was not enough it gets infected and leads to pyrexia of unknown origin. We herein report this case and discuss retrieval of migrated pacing wire.
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Sharma et al. (2020) studied this question. A retained uncut epicardial pacing wire migrated to the pulmonary artery after 4 years, leading to infection and pyrexia of unknown origin.
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