TY - JOUR
T1 - Intracardiac echocardiography in the detection of pacemaker lead endocarditis
AU - Dalal, Ajay
AU - Asirvatham, Samuel J.
AU - Chandrasekaran, Krishnaswamy
AU - Seward, James B.
AU - Tajik, A. Jamil
PY - 2002/9
Y1 - 2002/9
N2 - At times, infection of pacemaker leads can be difficult to confirm even with transesophageal echocardiography. We describe a patient with pacemaker lead infection where the transesophageal echocardiogram was nondiagnostic, and intracardiac echocardiography made the diagnosis by demonstrating the vegetation on the pacemaker lead. This illustrates a potential role for intracardiac echocardiography in infective endocarditis when transesophageal echocardiography is nondiagnostic.
AB - At times, infection of pacemaker leads can be difficult to confirm even with transesophageal echocardiography. We describe a patient with pacemaker lead infection where the transesophageal echocardiogram was nondiagnostic, and intracardiac echocardiography made the diagnosis by demonstrating the vegetation on the pacemaker lead. This illustrates a potential role for intracardiac echocardiography in infective endocarditis when transesophageal echocardiography is nondiagnostic.
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U2 - 10.1067/mje.2002.121276
DO - 10.1067/mje.2002.121276
M3 - Article
C2 - 12221430
AN - SCOPUS:0036738172
SN - 0894-7317
VL - 15
SP - 1027
EP - 1028
JO - Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
JF - Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
IS - 9
ER -