Abnormal coiling of a pacemaker lead into the pulmonary artery with massive infectious thrombosis.
Mellert
Fritz
F
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Heart Center at the University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 25, 53105 Bonn, Germany. fritz.mellert@uni-bonn.de
Bimmel
Dieter
D
Preusse
Claus J
CJ
D000368:Aged; D000792:Angiography / Q000379:methods; D017023:Coronary Angiography / Q000379:methods; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods; D004566:Electrodes; D004868:Equipment Failure; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007249:Inflammation; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000473:pathology*; D012086:Reoperation; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000150:complications*