Very-late proarrhythmia of a migrant pacemaker lead.
The report is on a 49-year-old patient who experienced life-threatening ventricular tachyarrhythmias caused by a pacemaker lead that was abandoned 26 years ago, migrated with its proximal ending to the main pulmonary artery and remained there asymptomatically for at least 3 years.
Stein
Andreas
A
Deutsches Herzzentrum München und 1. Medizinische Klinik des Klinikum rechts der Isar, Faculty of Medicine, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany. stein@dhm.mhn.de
Mazzitelli
Domenico
D
Kolb
Christof
C
D004567:Electrodes, Implanted / Q000009:adverse effects*; D004868:Equipment Failure; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial / Q000009:adverse effects*; D017180:Tachycardia, Ventricular / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*