Peritoneal migration of an abdominally implanted epicardial pacemaker: a cause of intestinal obstruction.
We report the case of a 10-year-old child with an abdominally implanted epicardial pacemaker that eroded through the peritoneum and migrated to an intraperitoneal location, resulting in partial and then complete intestinal obstruction. This potentially life-threatening complication should be considered when a patient with an abdominally implanted pacemaker presents with abdominal pain.
Gomez
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C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.
Dick
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Hernandez
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Coran
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Crowley
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Serwer
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D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006327:Heart Block / Q000151:congenital* / Q000628:therapy; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial; D011859:Radiography; D000267:Tissue Adhesions