title: Intragastric migration of a pacemaker implanted in the pleural space.
abstract: We have encountered a 12-year-old boy with a pacemaker implanted in the left pleural space during early infancy that migrated into the stomach through the diaphragm due to severe scoliosis and occult infection. The intrathoracic implantation of a pacemaker in an infant should be assessed more carefully, taking the volume of the unit into consideration, because of this potentially life-threatening complication.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, National Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Isobe
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kosakai
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ono
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Aragaki
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kamiya
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial / Q000009:adverse effects*; D010994:Pleura; D012600:Scoliosis / Q000150:complications; D013270:Stomach