How sweet is the pacemaker
2013
Pacemaker infections can be difficult to diagnose, especially when they present with non-specific symptoms and signs a long time after insertion of the device. Unidentified or partially treated low-grade chronic sepsis can result in multisystem disease processes with significant mortality and morbidity. Therefore, a high index of suspicion is required to identify the pacemaker as the source of sepsis and treat it effectively. This report describes a case of chronic pacemaker wire infection, which eventually presented with Sweet's syndrome, a rare manifestation of infective endocarditis.
Keywords:
- Hemofiltration
- Sweet's syndrome
- Infective endocarditis
- Bronchiectasis
- Artificial cardiac pacemaker
- Sepsis
- Intensive care medicine
- Cardiology
- Cardiac tamponade
- Dual Chamber Pacemaker
- Internal medicine
- Medicine
- hospital admission
- pathogenic organism
- Infected pacemaker
- Foreign Bodies
- Pacemaker leads
- bacterial endocarditis
- Computed tomography
- Correction
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