Pojar Marek, Vobornik Martin, Novy Jiri
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital in Hradec Kralove, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic.
J Card Surg. 2013 May;28(3):325-7. doi: 10.1111/jocs.12080. Epub 2013 Mar 11.
Cardiac ventricle perforation by a pacemaker (PM) lead is an uncommon complication of PM implantation. We report a patient with a delayed right ventricular perforation from a permanent PM lead which presented as a left hemothorax.