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Volume 353:1865 October 27, 2005 Number 17
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Damage to Pacemaker Lead during Mammography

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To the Editor: A 73-year-old woman presented on March 22, 2005, for routine evaluation of her VVIR (ventricular pacing, ventricular sensing, inhibition response, rate-adaptive) cardiac pacemaker. The unit had been implanted in the right pectoral region in 1980 because of the sick sinus syndrome. Her current pacemaker lead was the original Cordis lead. On examination, she was alert; she was 1.55 m in height and weighed 40.8 kg. She said that she had no syncope, presyncope, or pectoral wound stimulation.

Investigation of the pulse generator showed that a lead warning had occurred on December 21, 2004, and demonstrated the right . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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