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2020

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Accidental Snapping Of Right Ventricular Pacing Lead With Micra, Vivek Singh Guleria, Prafull Sharma, Prashant Bharadwaj Sep 2020

Accidental Snapping Of Right Ventricular Pacing Lead With Micra, Vivek Singh Guleria, Prafull Sharma, Prashant Bharadwaj

Journal of the Saudi Heart Association

Leadless pacemaker implantation rates are increasing worldwide. These pacemakers have to be deployed , captured and redeployed in order to achieve optimal electric parameters. Various complications occur during this procedure. We herein report a unique case, where right ventricular(RV) pacing lead of the patient was accidentally snapped during MICRA deployment in a elderly male with pocket site infection.