Colonic perforation: complication of automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator placement.
Massive pneumoperitoneum developed 3 days after placement of an automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator in a 75-year-old man. A subsequent computed tomographic examination revealed generator wires passing through the subxiphoid colon. Partial colectomy was performed, the generator was removed, and the wires were moved. The postoperative course was uneventful.
Department of Radiology, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, NY 10032.
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D000368:Aged; D003106:Colon / Q000293:injuries*; D004554:Electric Countershock / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D007416:Intestinal Perforation / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D011027:Pneumoperitoneum / Q000209:etiology*