Unexpected pacemaker lead in an 84‐year‐old patient

Sams, Lauren ; Brunner, Stefan; Näbauer, Michael und Steffen, Julius (2021): Unexpected pacemaker lead in an 84‐year‐old patient. In: Echocardiography, Bd. 38, Nr. 7: S. 1131-1132

Abstract

An elderly patient with a history of atrial fibrillation presented to our emergency room. Previous medical records from another hospital described a pacemaker lead in the echocardiography although the patient had no known history of a pacemaker implantation. Finally, by close examination, chest X-ray, and computed tomography, we found that a kyphoplasty of the spine had caused a so-called palacos embolism, which had repeatedly been mistaken for a pacemaker lead. Unusually, there were no further signs of kyphoplasty material in the pulmonary veins. As the patient was asymptomatic and the embolism caused only moderate tricuspid regurgitation, a conservative treatment was agreed on.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Medizin > Klinikum der LMU München > Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik I (Kardiologie)
• Themengebiete: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften > 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
• ISSN: 0742-2822
• Sprache: Englisch