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  • Title: Permanent pacemaker lead entrapment: role of the transesophageal echocardiography.
    Author: Champagne J, Poirier P, Dumesnil JG, Desaulniers D, Boudreault JR, O'Hara G, Gilbert M, Philippon F.
    Journal: Pacing Clin Electrophysiol; 2002 Jul; 25(7):1131-4. PubMed ID: 12164456.
    Abstract:
    Numerous complications induced by pacemaker electrodes have been reported. Although mild tricuspid regurgitation is a well-documented complication of transvenous right ventricular pacemaker leads secondary to abnormal valve coaptation, severe tricuspid regurgitation resultingfrom perforation of the tricuspid valve itself is a rare complication. This case report details a patient with severe tricuspid regurgitation secondary to impingement of the tricuspid valve by a permanent pacing lead that was diagnosed by transesophageal echocardiography. Surgical repair was advocated because of symptomatic significant tricuspid regurgitation.
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