Permanent pacemaker lead entrapment: role of the transesophageal echocardiography.
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.
Champagne
Jean
J
Quebec Heart Institute, Canada.
Poirier
Paul
P
Dumesnil
Jean G
JG
Desaulniers
Denis
D
Boudreault
J R
JR
O'Hara
Gilles
G
Gilbert
Marcel
M
Philippon
François
F
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