Transesophageal echocardiographic imaging of misplaced ventricular pacing electrode.
Misplacement of pacemaker electrodes has been reported in different locations within the heart with divers clinical consequences. We present a patient in whom transesophageal echocardiography was of significant importance in imaging and understanding the electrode's course within the heart chambers.
Gilon
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Department of Cardiology, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.
Lotan
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Gotsman
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Rein
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D000328:Adult; D004452:Echocardiography; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D004567:Electrodes, Implanted; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial