Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Rep 2014; 03(01): 033-034
DOI: 10.1055/s-0034-1384667
Case Report: Cardiac
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

An Unusual Position for the Permanent Pacing Wire

Pankaj Kumar Mishra
1   Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heart and Lung Centre, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
,
Alexander Ng
2   Department of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia, Heart and Lung Centre, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
,
Heyman Luckraz
1   Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heart and Lung Centre, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
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Publication History

13 April 2014

12 May 2014

Publication Date:
16 September 2014 (online)

Abstract

Complications related to permanent pacing wires insertion include ventricular perforation. It commonly perforates the right ventricle. We present images of an unusual case where the pacing wires perforated the anterior left ventricular wall between the left anterior descending artery and diagonal artery.