Back to Search
Start Over
Distal pacemaker lead fracture: a rare entity
- Source :
- Case Reports. 2010:bcr0520103019-bcr0520103019
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- BMJ, 2010.
-
Abstract
- An 87-year-old woman from a nursing home with a history of ventricular rate responsive demand (VVIR) Microny II SR (St. Jude Medical AB, Jarfalla, Sweden) pacemaker insertion for syncope with complete heart block in 2003 was admitted following an episode of loss of consciousness. This occurred as she was being helped to the toilet by two carers each supporting her under one arm. …
- Subjects :
- Pacemaker, Artificial
Ventricular rate
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Heart block
Rare entity
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Article
Electrocardiography
Equipment failure
Heart Block
Internal medicine
Cardiology
Humans
Medicine
Equipment Failure
Female
business
Nursing homes
Aged
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1757790X
- Volume :
- 2010
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Case Reports
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e5b5d563f8f8ca81a7b08c9af73f01b3
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr.05.2010.3019