title: Percutaneous retrieval of a radiolucent anchoring sleeve embolized in pulmonary artery during pacemaker implantation.
abstract: An 85-year-old female presented to our institution with symptomatic sick sinus syndrome. During pacemaker implantation, an anchoring sleeve in the right ventricular lead was embolized in the left pulmonary artery. Although the anchoring sleeve was radiolucent, digital subtraction angiography revealed an angiographic filling defect in the lower branch of the left pulmonary artery, and a snare catheter enabled the anchoring sleeve to be grasped and extracted.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, 3-25-8, Nishi-shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-8461, Japan. tokudam@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Michifumi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tokuda
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, 3-25-8, Nishi-shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-8461, Japan.
authors.forename: Teiichi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamane
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Shunichi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sadaoka
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, 3-25-8, Nishi-shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-8461, Japan.
authors.forename: Kenichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tokutake
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, 3-25-8, Nishi-shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-8461, Japan.
authors.forename: Kenichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yokoyama
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, 3-25-8, Nishi-shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-8461, Japan.
authors.forename: Mika
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hioki
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, 3-25-8, Nishi-shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-8461, Japan.
authors.forename: Ryohsuke
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Narui
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, 3-25-8, Nishi-shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-8461, Japan.
authors.forename: Shinichi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tanigawa
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, 3-25-8, Nishi-shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-8461, Japan.
authors.forename: Keiichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Inada
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, 3-25-8, Nishi-shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-8461, Japan.
authors.forename: Seiichiro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Matsuo
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, 3-25-8, Nishi-shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-8461, Japan.
authors.forename: Michihiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yoshimura
mesh_terms: D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000072226:Computed Tomography Angiography; D020878:Device Removal / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D012804:Sick Sinus Syndrome / Q000628:therapy*
keywords: Complication; Computed tomography; Pacemaker; Pulmonary artery; Retrieval; Sleeve