Colonic injury from temporary epicardial pacing wires.
case_report · Level V
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 22450087.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.09.020.
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Abstract
A 72-year-old man who had undergone a three-vessel coronary artery bypass grafting, aortic valve replacement, and tricuspid valve repair became comatose 1 week after the procedure. Signs of intraabdominal sepsis developed 6 days later, leading to laparotomy on his 12th postoperative day. The Intraoperative finding was a perforating injury to the transverse colon caused by the ventricular temporary pacing wires. A defunctioning double-barreled transverse colostomy was performed, after which the patient started to recover. He was discharged home 2 weeks later.
Medical subject headings
- Cardiac Surgical Procedures
- Colon
- Electrodes, Implanted
- Heart Diseases
- Intestinal Perforation
- Pacemaker, Artificial