Late-Onset Infection in a Leadless Pacemaker.

JACC Case Rep

UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Published: December 2022

Infection of leadless pacemakers (LPM) is rare, even in patients at high risk for infections. Only 3 cases of LPM infection have been documented in the literature, all occurring within 1 month of device implantation. We report the first case, to our knowledge, of late-onset LPM infection, developing almost 2 years after implantation. ().

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9847243PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2022.09.015DOI Listing

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