A case of permanent pacemaker lead infection

Nature Clinical Practice. Cardiovascular Medicine
Caterina SimonRiccardo Sinatra

Abstract

A 70-year-old man with diabetes mellitus, fever of unknown origin and oliguria was admitted to hospital. Blood cultures were positive for a Staphylococcus aureus infection and antibiotic therapy was started. A year previously the patient had received a DDD pacemaker to treat sick sinus syndrome with intermittent atrioventricular block. Transthoracic echocardiography showed severe tricuspid regurgitation and a mass attached to the ventricular pacemaker lead; transesophageal echocardiography showed the same finding but additionally showed a vegetation on the tricuspid septal leaflet and a mass attached to the atrial pacemaker lead. Coronary angiography revealed a lesion that occluded 70% of the proximal left anterior descending artery and occlusion of the proximal right coronary artery. Electrocardiography, transthoracic echocardiography, transesophageal echocardiography, multidetector thoracic CT, coronary angiography, blood cultures and laboratory testing. Pacemaker lead infection and tricuspid valve endocarditis. The patient was surgically treated under cardiopulmonary bypass during which the pacemaker system was removed and an accurate debridement of the tricuspid tissue was performed.

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