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Case Reports
. 2003;30(1):84-5.

Pacemaker lead entrapment syndrome

Kamal Gupta  1 , Rollo P Villareal, Abdi Rasekh, Ali Massumi
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Case Reports

Pacemaker lead entrapment syndrome

Kamal Gupta et al. Tex Heart Inst J. 2003.
No abstract available

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Fig. 1 A chest radiograph shows an obvious coil fracture of the atrial lead (arrow), and the ventricular lead also appears damaged.
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Fig. 2 The explanted leads show evidence of advanced coil fracture in the atrial lead (top) and a break in the insulation with some coil damage in the ventricular lead (bottom).
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