title: Laparoscopic-assisted retrieval of migrated intra-abdominal pacemaker generator.
abstract: A 5-year-old boy born with a congenital heart defect had insertion of an epicardial pacemaker that was found on routine evaluation to have been displaced into the rectovesical pouch. He underwent transvenous insertion of another pacemaker, and the displaced pacemaker was successfully retrieved by laparoscopy without incident.
authors.affiliation: Pediatric Surgery Department, Schneider Children's Medical Center, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, University of Tel Aviv, 49202, Petah Tikva, Israel. dragank@clalit.org.il
authors.forename: Dragan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kravarusic
authors.forename: Lohfa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chirdan
authors.forename: Enrique
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Freud
mesh_terms: D000005:Abdomen; D054537:Atrioventricular Block / Q000628:therapy; D002675:Child, Preschool; D020878:Device Removal / Q000379:methods*; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000601:surgery*; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy; D008297:Male; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial