title: Migration of an abandoned pacemaker generator into the pouch of Douglas in a child with complex congenital heart disease.
abstract: A young girl with complex congenital heart disease underwent Fontan procedure and multiple pacemaker revisions, including abandonment of an intraabdominal pacemaker generator at age eight. She presented two years later with constipation and abdominal twitching. Radiographs, pacemaker interrogation, and laparoscopy confirmed dislocation of the abandoned generator and intraperitoneal migration into the pouch of Douglas. The device was removed surgically without incident.
authors.affiliation: National Capital Consortium Pediatrics, Bethesda, MD, USA. Joseph.May@na.amedd.army.mil
authors.forename: Joseph W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: May
authors.forename: Daniel P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Shmorhun
mesh_terms: D000005:Abdomen; D002648:Child; D020878:Device Removal; D005260:Female; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial; D011859:Radiography