Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy-Defibrillator Pocket Infection Due to Non-Typhoidal Salmonella Infection.
10.3904/kjm.2013.84.3.418
- Author:
Dong Jun LEE
1
;
Seung Hyun LEE
;
Jae Hyun HAN
;
Seung Jun LEE
;
Hui Nam PAK
;
Moon Hyoung LEE
;
Boyoung JOUNG
Author Information
1. Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. cby6908@yuhs.ac
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Cardiac resynchronization therapy device;
Infection;
Salmonella;
Lead extraction
- MeSH:
Aortic Valve;
Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy;
Defibrillators;
Heart Failure;
Humans;
Mitral Valve;
Salmonella;
Salmonella Infections;
Tachycardia, Ventricular
- From:Korean Journal of Medicine
2013;84(3):418-422
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Non-typhoidal salmonella is rarely the cause of pacemaker infection. A 68-year-old man was referred to our hospital with tenderness and swelling at his cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (CRT-D) implantation site. He had undergone CRT-D implantation because of sustained ventricular tachycardia and heart failure 7 years earlier, and the generator had been changed 2 months earlier. Twenty-four years earlier, he had undergone aortic valve replacement and mitral valve repair. We removed the generator and all of the CRT-D leads. After lead extraction, non-typhoidal salmonella serogroup B was cultured at the pocket and lead tip. The patient was managed successfully with lead extraction and antibiotic therapy.
