European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on October 16, 2008
European Heart Journal 2009 30(4):435; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn449
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Cardiac strangulation: a rare, but devastating complication of epicardial pacing causing progressive myocardial ischaemia
1 Department of Pediatric Cardiology
2 Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Heart Center, University of Leipzig, Struempellstrasse 39, Leipzig 04289, Germany
* Corresponding author. Tel: +49 341 865 253014, Fax: +49 341 865 1824. Email: frank-thomas.riede@med.uni-leipzig.de
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A female infant with a history of prematurity (gestational age: 29 weeks) and congenital complete heart block caused by maternal lupus erythematodes underwent implantation of