title: A rare cause of abdominal pain.
abstract: Pacemaker migration is a rare, but important, complication of pacemaker insertion mainly documented in children. We report the case of a 60-year-old woman who was admitted with right iliac fossa pain thought to be caused by appendicitis. She was noted to have both an epicardial and endocardial pacemaker in situ. Imaging and laparoscopy revealed migration of the epicardial pacemaker to the right iliac fossa. We describe the possible mechanisms of pacemaker migration.
authors: Department of Surgery, Hillingdon Hospital, Uxbridge, London, UK.
authors: Kathleen S
authors: KS
authors: Li
authors: Haris A
authors: HA
authors: Khwaja
authors: Tayyib T
authors: TT
authors: Hayat
authors: Ayesha
authors: A
authors: Asghar
authors: Will
authors: W
authors: Alsarakbi
authors: Chris
authors: C
authors: Kelley
authors: Ekambaram D
authors: ED
authors: Babu
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial / Q000009:adverse effects*; D010529:Peritoneal Cavity; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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