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Successful conservative management of a permanent pacemaker pocket infection: a less invasive approach.
BMJ Case Reports 2017 June 21
We present a successful conservative management strategy for a frail elderly patient with a cardiac resynchronisation pacemaker who presented with evidence of an Enterobacter cloacae pacemaker pocket infection. A device washout and debridement procedure was performed, with reburial of the device in a new prepectoral pocket and creation of a closed-loop continuous antibiotic infusion into the infected pacemaker pocket. This was followed by a 6-week course of ambulatory intravenous antibiotic therapy. This conservative management strategy avoided the need for a more invasive and high-risk full device extraction, which the patient clearly stated he did not wish to have. Up-to-date consensus management guidelines recommend extraction of the entire implanted system in this situation; however, in this case we demonstrate an alternative conservative management option, which may be suitable for frail elderly and comorbid patients or for patients who decline device extraction.
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