<p>Like children, adult patients with active or abandoned epicardial pacing leads are also at risk of developing life-threatening cardiac ischemia due to mechanical compression of the coronary arteries. As this complication is amenable to surgical removal, these patients require periodic evaluation for myocardial ischemia even if they are asymptomatic.</p>

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Cardiac strangulation by epicardial pacing wires in adults

  • S. Serge Barold,
  • Carsten W. Israel

摘要

Like children, adult patients with active or abandoned epicardial pacing leads are also at risk of developing life-threatening cardiac ischemia due to mechanical compression of the coronary arteries. As this complication is amenable to surgical removal, these patients require periodic evaluation for myocardial ischemia even if they are asymptomatic.