title: Permanent pacemaker lead entrapment: role of the transesophageal echocardiography.
abstract: Numerous complications induced by pacemaker electrodes have been reported. Although mild tricuspid regurgitation is a well-documented complication of transvenous right ventricular pacemaker leads secondary to abnormal valve coaptation, severe tricuspid regurgitation resultingfrom perforation of the tricuspid valve itself is a rare complication. This case report details a patient with severe tricuspid regurgitation secondary to impingement of the tricuspid valve by a permanent pacing lead that was diagnosed by transesophageal echocardiography. Surgical repair was advocated because of symptomatic significant tricuspid regurgitation.
authors.affiliation: Quebec Heart Institute, Canada.
authors.forename: Jean
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Champagne
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Poirier
authors.forename: Jean G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Dumesnil
authors.forename: Denis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Desaulniers
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Boudreault
authors.forename: Gilles
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: O'Hara
authors.forename: Marcel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gilbert
authors.forename: François
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Philippon
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D004567:Electrodes, Implanted / Q000009:adverse effects*; D004868:Equipment Failure; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial / Q000009:adverse effects*; D014262:Tricuspid Valve Insufficiency / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery