ISSN: 0022-1198
Published Online: 17 August 2005
Page Count: 3

Fatality Following Right Atrial Perforation by a Screw-in Pacemaker Electrode
deRoux, SJ
New York University School of Medicine, NY

(Received 9 October 2004; accepted 9 April 2005)

Abstract

This paper describes the first reported fatality from right atrial perforation complicating the insertion of a screw-in right atrial pacemaker electrode. The patient was an 84-year-old woman with the sick sinus syndrome who also had hepatic cirrhosis.

Keywords:
forensic science, atrial perforation, screw-in pacemaker, hemopericardium

Paper ID: JFS2004445
DOI: 10.1520/JFS2004445
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