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SUBMITTER: Bhalgat PS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8305121 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bhalgat Parag Sumatilal PS Kharche Prashant Prakash PP Agrawal Ashish A
JACC. Case reports 20201216 15
Iatrogenic cardiac perforation is a major complication of cardiac intervention. Surgical correction of perforation is standard of care. We discuss a pacing wire induced right ventricular perforation during the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Open heart surgery was high risk due to age and COVID-related significant lung involvement. As a bailout measure, the perforation was successfully closed with transcatheter intervention. (<b>Level of Difficulty: Advanced.</b>). ...[more]