title: [A rare cause of stroke in a patient with a cardiac pacemaker].
abstract: The authors report the case of a 78 year old woman admitted to hospital for recurrent cerebrovascular accidents, the initial investigation of which was normal. This pacemaker patient had a displacement of the definitive ventricular pacing catheter which was positioned in the left ventricle through a patent foramen ovale. The diagnosis was suspected on clinical and echocardiographic examination and confirmed by transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography. In view of the risk of systemic embolism, the pacing catheter was repositioned by an endovascular approach in the right ventricle.
authors: Département de cardiologie, hôpital Robert Debré, 51092 Reims. patrice.laury@wanadoo.fr
authors: P
authors: P
authors: Laury
authors: J P
authors: JP
authors: Chabert
authors: C
authors: C
authors: Blaise
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Pérotin
authors: C
authors: C
authors: Brasselet
authors: C
authors: C
authors: Schlick
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Tassan-Mangina
authors: D
authors: D
authors: Metz
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Elaerts
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004452:Echocardiography; D004617:Embolism; D005260:Female; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial / Q000009:adverse effects*; D012008:Recurrence; D012307:Risk Factors; D020521:Stroke / Q000209:etiology*