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- Title
Recurrent Postcardiac Injury Syndrome Mimicking Cardiac Perforation Following Transvenous Pacing: An Unusual Presentation.
- Authors
KRISHNAN, MANGALATH N.; LUQMAN, NAZAR; NAIR, RAMACHANDRAN; MONCY, OOMMEN J.; CHONG, CHEAN L.; CHONG, CHEE F.W.; LAU, NGO B.
- Abstract
We report a case of recurrent postcardiac injury syndrome (PCIS) after pacemaker lead insertion. Each episode was attended by hemorrhagic pleuro-pericardial effusion with drop in hemoglobin levels leading us to consider cardiac perforation and subject the patient to surgical pericardiotomy. However, no perforation or active bleeding was detected on exploration. This unusual case illustrates the occurrence of PCIS following pacemaker lead insertion, mimicking cardiac perforation. This entity should be considered in patients who, after pacemaker lead insertion, develop pericardial and pleural effusion associated with markers of inflammation.
- Subjects
POSTPERICARDIOTOMY syndrome; CARDIAC pacemakers; MYOCARDIAL infarction; CARDIAC tamponade; INFECTIVE endocarditis; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; PLEURAL effusions; CATHETERIZATION
- Publication
Pacing & Clinical Electrophysiology, 2006, Vol 29, Issue 11, p1312
- ISSN
0147-8389
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1540-8159.2006.00539.x