Lead replacement for my daughter (7) first time...

Hi evryone, I have been a member for a while but it is the first time i post. Thank you in advance for your comments!!

My daughter is 7 years old she was born with many CHD 's she had a full repair when she was 5 months old but her heart can't beat fast enough 34 bpm so in 2007 they put in a pacemaker and she has been doing well ever since but recently she has been complaining about a sore by her pacemaker. It is in her right brest muscel. Today I checked her over and found i could feel something over her scar! i braught her to the ER and after an x ray they told me it was a lead that is poken out!! Her cardioligist will call me on tuesday to let me know when we are going to change the leads..

Is the procedure harder than the first??

and what could cause the leac to kink and poke out?(hasen't broken the skin ) thank you

3 Comments

same

by Tracey_E - 2009-09-06 06:09:52

Sometimes the leads just break! Sometimes a trauma will cause it, but sometimes it just happens. The procedure will probably be the same as the first one.

Good luck to the little one xx

by Hot Heart - 2009-09-11 03:09:46

Hot Heart xx

Thankfully

by Beckes76 - 2009-10-14 07:10:29

I got my first PM at 7 also. I am on my fourth one and I am 33. I am so lucky that nothing like that has ever happend to me at all. All the surgeries were successes. My first three PM with in my stomach area and they finally moved my PM to my shoulder area in 2005. My leads never were a problem to me. I still have those two leads going nowhere now. They were so embeded into my heart. After all my srugeries I have been up and moving around with in a few days. It shocked my co-workers the last time. I was at work working within ten days. I was bored at home and wanted to do something.

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