1. Bacterial Endocarditis Associated With a Permanent Transvenous Cardiac Pacemaker
- Author
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Ira Schwartz and Nafees K. Pervez
- Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,Atrial endocardium ,medicine.medical_treatment ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Cardiac pacemaker ,Surgery ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Bacterial endocarditis ,Pacemaker catheter ,Internal medicine ,Bacteremia ,cardiovascular system ,medicine ,Cardiology ,Right atrium ,cardiovascular diseases ,Embolization ,business ,Endocardium - Abstract
To our knowledge, the first case of acute bacterial endocarditis in a patient with a permanent pervenous cardiac pacemaker occurred on the mural endocardium of the right atrium along the course of the pacemaker catheter. It is suggested that bacteremia, probably originating from a sacral decubitus ulcer, resulted in implantation of organisms on the damaged atrial endocardium with subsequent septic embolization.
- Published
- 1971