Detection of Pacemaker Lead Infection by Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography

• Miura Takashi

  The Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine

• Kinoshita Osamu

  The Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine

• Horigome Mitsuaki

  The Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine

• Kasai Hiroki

  The Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine

• Aizawa Kazunori

  The Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine

• Yoshioka Tohru

  The Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine

• Tomita Takeshi

  The Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine

• Kumazaki Setsuo

  The Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine

• Tsutsui Hiroshi

  The Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine

• Koyama Jun

  The Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine

• Yazaki Yoshikazu

  The Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine

• Ikeda Uichi

  The Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine

Abstract

An 80-year-old man was implanted with a DDD pacemaker to treat his sick sinus syndrome in 1990. Eleven years later, he had a pocket infection and cutaneous inflammation. Blood cultures were negative, and ⁶⁷Ga scintigraphy revealed uptake in the left subclavian region. However, intense abnormal fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake along the pacemaker leads was detected with positron emission tomography (PET). Thoracotomy was performed, vegetations were removed from the right atrial wall and the tricuspid leaflet, encapsulating fibrous tissue was incised, and the lead was removed from the right ventricle.

Journal

• Journal of Arrhythmia

  Journal of Arrhythmia 22 (4), 242-244, 2006

  Japanese Heart Rhythm Society

Keywords

• Pacemaker
• Lead infection
• PET
• FDG

Details

• CRID: 1390001205246159232
• NII Article ID: 10018487348
• NII Book ID: AA12059301
• DOI: 10.4020/jhrs.22.242
• ISSN: 18832148
• ISSN: 18804276
• Web Site: https://search.jamas.or.jp/link/ui/2007192788
• Text Lang: en
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