Perforation of the right atrial appendage during implantation of a leadless pacemaker

Kazuma Date; Tomohiro Murata; Akiko Mano; Mitsuhiro Kawata; Shunei Kyo

doi:10.1002/joa3.12674

Perforation of the right atrial appendage during implantation of a leadless pacemaker

J Arrhythm. 2021 Dec 29;38(1):163-165. doi: 10.1002/joa3.12674. eCollection 2022 Feb.

Authors

Kazuma Date¹, Tomohiro Murata¹, Akiko Mano¹, Mitsuhiro Kawata¹, Shunei Kyo¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital Tokyo Japan.

Abstract

We report a case of perforation of the right atrial appendage during implantation of a leadless pacemaker in a 94 years old woman. We performed emergency surgery to repair the perforation site. To our konwledge, there are few reports of right atrial perforation during a leadless pacemaker indwelling.

Keywords: cardiac perforation; emergency operation; leadless pacemaker.