Traumatic pacemaker lead fracture
- Department of Cardiology, Military Hospital, Budapest, Hungary
- Correspondence to Dr Adam Bo''hm, Department of Cardiology, Military Hospital, Róbert Károly krt 44, Budapest 1133, Hungary; abohm{at}freemail.hu
- Received 1 November 2012
- Revised 1 November 2012
- Accepted 5 November 2012
- Published Online First 8 December 2012
Pacemaker lead fracture caused by blunt trauma is extremely rare. Only a few cases have been reported and the lead fracture was only partial in those cases.1 ,2 We present a case with a complete tear of the lead.
A 64-year-old man with carotid sinus syncope had a VVI pacemaker (Biotronik Pikos 01) implanted. The lead was inserted through …
