title: Concealed Malfunction of The Temporary Pacemaker creator: Alasti, Mohammad creator: Haghjoo, Majid creator: Alizadeh, Abolfath creator: Sadr-Ameli, Mohammad Ali subject: Indian Pacing and Electrophysiology Journal description: The 12-lead ECG shows sequential atrial and ventricular pacing (Figure 1A). A tracing, obtained simultaneously during pacemaker interrogation, disclosed pacemaker functioning as VDD mode (Figure 1B). The careful examination of this pacemaker tracing showed that there is a pacing stimulus before each P wave (compatible with DDD mode). This paradox can only be explained by displacement of the temporary pacing lead to right atrium and right atrial stimulation by temporary pacemaker. In this setting, each temporary pacemaker-induced atrial depolarization is tracked by the right atrial lead of the permanent pacemaker as intrinsic P wave. Fluoroscopic study confirmed this explanation (Figure 2). The displaced temporary pacing lead was seen near the lateral right atrial wall. Temporary pacemaker lead had been inserted before replacement of permanent pacemaker. publisher: Indian Pacing and Electrophysiology Group contributor: Singh, Balbir contributor: Lokhandwala, Yash contributor: Francis, Johnson contributor: Gupta, Anup contributor: Ghosh, Joydeep date: 2006-04 type: Journal (Paginated) type: PeerReviewed format: text/html identifier: http://cogprints.org/4807/1/alasti.htm format: application/pdf identifier: http://cogprints.org/4807/2/alasti.pdf identifier: Alasti, Mohammad and Haghjoo, Majid and Alizadeh, Abolfath and Sadr-Ameli, Mohammad Ali (2006) Concealed Malfunction of The Temporary Pacemaker. [Journal (Paginated)] relation: http://cogprints.org/4807/