Sudden pain on pacemaker pocket followed by explosion in a patient with a permanent pacemaker

Título:	Sudden pain on pacemaker pocket followed by explosion in a patient with a permanent pacemaker
Autores/as:	Ruiz Santana, Sergio Aguado-Bourrey, J. M. Martin-Rodriguez, A. Perez-Arriaga, M.
Clasificación UNESCO:	32 Ciencias médicas 320501 Cardiología
Palabras clave:	Pacemaker pocket Permanent pacemaker
Fecha de publicación:	1987
Publicación seriada:	Chest (American College of Chest Physicians)
Resumen:	An 81-year-old woman with a mercury-zinc powered permanent pacemaker experienced the sudden pain on her pacemaker pocket followed by an explosion. We are aware of no other report of the spontaneous and symptomatic bursting of a generator battery with fracture of the pulse generator capsule.
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10553/45979
ISSN:	0012-3692
DOI:	10.1378/chest.91.3.467
Fuente:	Chest [ISSN 0012-3692],v. 91, p. 467-468
Colección:	Artículos

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