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Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg · Sep 2010
Case ReportsChallenging pacemaker implantation in a patient with acquired dextrocardia after pneumonectomy, skoliosis and complete heart block.
- Karsten Hamm, Dariush Haghi, Martin Borggrefe, and Jürgen Kuschyk.
- First Department of Medicine-Cardiology, Angiology, Pneumology, Intensive Care Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany. Karsten.Hamm@UMM.de
- Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2010 Sep 1; 11 (3): 366-8.
AbstractPacemaker 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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