Infectious endocardial intracardiac defibrillator lead, infectious pericarditis, and delayed constrictive pericarditis.
The usage of Implantable Cardiac Defibrillator (ICD) since 1980s is becoming more popular these days. The rate of both, endocarditis and constrictive pericarditis are low but it still needs attention. We are reporting a rare case of ICD endocarditis as a result of toe infection in a diabetic patient. This was followed by infectious pericarditis after device removal by open heart surgery and then delayed constrictive pericarditis.
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Chamran Hospital, Iran.
Mohsen Mir Mohammad
MM
Sadeghi
Akbar
A
Sadri
Ahmad
A
Mirdamadi
Mohammad Reza Samiee
MR
Nasab
Elham
E
Majidi
Pouya Mir Mohammad
PM
Sadeghi
Constrictive; Staphylococcus aureus; defibrillators; endocarditis; implantable; pericarditis