PMID: 7546797Jul 1, 1995Paper

Identification of a malpositioned atrial pacemaker lead across a patent foramen ovale by transesophageal echocardiography

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : Official Publication of the American Society of Echocardiography
T Estrada-QuinteroJ Gorcsan

Abstract

Transesophageal echocardiography was used for defining the unusual left atrial location of a malpositioned atrial pacemaker lead. This malpositioning occurred in a 75-year-old woman who had a small atrial septal aneurysm and a patent foramen ovale. Neither the precise location of the pacemaker lead tip nor the course of the lead was apparent by radiographic or transthoracic echocardiographic techniques. This report extends the potential utility of transesophageal echocardiography for the identification of malpositioned atrial pacemaker leads.

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Aug 1, 1990·Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology : PACE·L J JordaensM De Buyzere

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Jan 8, 2005·Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : Official Publication of the American Society of Echocardiography·Kumral ErgunHatice Sasmaz
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