title: Transesophageal echocardiographic imaging of misplaced ventricular pacing electrode.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gilon
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lotan
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Gotsman
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Rein
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004452:Echocardiography; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D004567:Electrodes, Implanted; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial