Successful snare retrieval of a dislodged AVEIR leadless pacemaker from right pulmonary artery: a case report
Xuelian Song, Fan Wang, Feifei Zhang, Xiaoyong Qi, Yi Dang · 2026
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Xuelian Song and four colleagues tell in 2026 how a leadless pacemaker that slipped into a lung artery was fished out and reused in an eighty-two-year-old woman. Leadless devices avoid the wires and chest pockets of older pacemakers, yet one can detach during placement. The woman had severe valve disease, heart failure, and pauses in her heartbeat shown on monitoring.
Soon after the Aveir device was positioned low in her right ventricle, it dislodged into the right pulmonary artery. The team caught it with a gooseneck snare together with the triple-loop snare of the retrieval catheter. The same device was then re-implanted successfully. The authors offer the rescue as a practical lesson for teams learning this newer technology.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Xuelian Song, Fan Wang, Feifei Zhang, Xiaoyong Qi, Yi Dang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 12671 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |