Challenging pacemaker implantation in a patient with acquired dextrocardia after pneumonectomy, skoliosis and complete heart block
Pacemaker implantation after pneumonectomy is rare and there have been no previously reported cases of acquired dextrocardia after implantation. The authors report the case of a pacemaker implantation in a patient with complete heart block, impaired left ventricular function, sclerosis of heart valv...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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01 September 2010
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Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery
Year: 2010, Volume: 11, Issue: 3, Pages: 366-368 |
| ISSN: | 1569-9285 |
| DOI: | 10.1510/icvts.2010.240507 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1510/icvts.2010.240507
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| Author Notes: | Karsten Hamm, Dariush Haghi, Martin Borggrefe, Jürgen Kuschyk (First Department of Medicine-Cardiology, Angiology, Pneumology, Intensive Care Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany) |
| Summary: | Pacemaker implantation after pneumonectomy is rare and there have been no previously reported cases of acquired dextrocardia after implantation. The authors report the case of a pacemaker implantation in a patient with complete heart block, impaired left ventricular function, sclerosis of heart valves and radiation induced vasculopathy resulting in ostial stenosis of the right coronary artery 30 years after radiochemotherapy in childhood. Acquired dextrocardia after right pneumonectomy for mucoepidermoid carcinoma made implantation a challenge due to and poor fluoroscopic visualization of the heart and increased radio-opacity of the right chest when compared to congenital dextrocardia. |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 03.03.2023 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1569-9285 |
| DOI: | 10.1510/icvts.2010.240507 |