[An exceptional cause of pacemaker dysfunction].

Ann Cardiol Angeiol (Paris)

Service de cardiologie, hôpital d'instruction des armées Desgenettes, 108, boulevard Pinel, 69275 Lyon cedex 03, France.

Published: February 2014

Twiddler syndrome is a very rare and surprising complication of pacemaker treatment. We report the case of a woman with psychiatric disease who presented two cardiac arrests due to loss of ventricular capture. Finally, pacemaker retropectoral implantation resolves the problem.

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