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Chest, Vol 91, 467-468, Copyright © 1987 by American College of Chest Physicians

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Sudden pain on pacemaker pocket followed by explosion in a patient with a permanent pacemaker

S Ruiz-Santana, JM Aguado-Bourrey, A Martin-Rodriguez and M Perez-Arriaga

An 81-year-old woman with a mercury-zinc powered permanent pacemaker experienced the sudden pain on her pacemaker pocket followed by an explosion. We are aware of no other report of the spontaneous and symptomatic bursting of a generator battery with fracture of the pulse generator capsule.




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