Venous occlusion: a rare complication of transvenous cardiac pacing.
Venous occlusion is an uncommon complication of transvenous cardiac pacing. Fibrotic occlusion of the right subclavian and innominate veins and stenosis of the left innominate vein, after the insertion of transvenous pacing wire, was corrected surgically with an external iliac vein graft.
Ferguson
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Division of Surgery, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia.
McCaughan
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May
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Waugh
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D000328:Adult; D015901:Angiography, Digital Subtraction; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D016121:Brachiocephalic Veins; D002404:Catheterization; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial / Q000009:adverse effects*; D019736:Prostheses and Implants / Q000009:adverse effects*; D013350:Subclavian Vein; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014689:Venous Insufficiency / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery