Rare complication of permanent pacemaker: protrusion of the battery connected to  the pacemaker pocket infection

Süleyman Ercan; Murat Sucu; Fethi Yavuz; Vuslat Bosnak; Vedat Davutoğlu

doi:10.5455/GMJ-30-2012-109

Authors

Süleyman Ercan Gaziantep Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Kardiyoloji Anabilim Dalı, Gaziantep
Murat Sucu Gaziantep Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Kardiyoloji Anabilim Dalı, Gaziantep
Fethi Yavuz Gaziantep Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Kardiyoloji Anabilim Dalı, Gaziantep
Vuslat Bosnak Gaziantep Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Enfeksiyon Hastalıkları Anabilim Dalı, Gaziantep
Vedat Davutoğlu Gaziantep Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Kardiyoloji Anabilim Dalı, Gaziantep

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5455/GMJ-30-2012-109

Keywords:

Pacemaker, pocket infection, protrusion

Abstract

Pacemaker pocket infection will recently increasingly be seen as a problem related to expanding range of indications of the permanent pacemaker, cardiac resynchronization therapy, implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD). Seventy-four-year-old male patient with ICD implanted in 2008 due to ischemic cardiomyopathy, who had the pacemaker battery protruding from the skin after pacemaker pocket infection. After 4 weeks of antibiotic therapy, all pacemaker equipment removed by surgery. Pacemaker pocket infection developed more frequently in the presence of risk factors, needs long-term use of antibiotics, and surgical treatment as complicated.

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