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Pacing Lead-Induced Granuloma in the Atrium: A Foreign Body Reaction to Polyurethane
- Source :
- Case Reports in Cardiology, Vol 2013 (2013)
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- Hindawi Limited, 2013.
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Abstract
- We described a case of an 82-year-old male who presented with a granuloma entrapping the polyurethane-coated pacing lead at the site of contact on the atrium. He had been paced for 8 years without symptoms or signs suggestive of an allergic reaction to the pacemaker system and died from thrombosis of the superior mesenteric artery and heart failure. A histological examination of the nodule showed an incidental granuloma with multinucleated giant cells. No granuloma was found in the heart or the lung.
- Subjects :
- Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
RC666-701
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20906404 and 20906412
- Volume :
- 2013
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Case Reports in Cardiology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.07a5e6273b23482ba9b20233b8a3708e
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/396595