A rare cause of abdominal pain

Pacemaker migration is a rare, but important, complication of pacemaker insertion mainly documented in children. We report the case of a 60-year-old woman who was admitted with right iliac fossa pain thought to be caused by appendicitis. She was noted to have both an epicardial and endocardial pacem...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 2007-07, Vol.89 (5), p.W14-16
Hauptverfasser:	Li, Kathleen S, Khwaja, Haris A, Hayat, Tayyib T, Asghar, Ayesha, Alsarakbi, Will, Kelley, Chris, Babu, Ekambaram D
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Abdominal Pain - etiology Female Foreign-Body Migration - etiology Humans Middle Aged New Online Case Reports Pacemaker, Artificial - adverse effects Peritoneal Cavity Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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Zusammenfassung:	Pacemaker migration is a rare, but important, complication of pacemaker insertion mainly documented in children. We report the case of a 60-year-old woman who was admitted with right iliac fossa pain thought to be caused by appendicitis. She was noted to have both an epicardial and endocardial pacemaker in situ. Imaging and laparoscopy revealed migration of the epicardial pacemaker to the right iliac fossa. We describe the possible mechanisms of pacemaker migration.
ISSN:	0035-8843 1478-7083
DOI:	10.1308/147870807x188489