Serdar Bozyel, Tolga Aksu, Tumer Erdem Guler, Kazım Serhan Ozcan, Mujdat Aktas. Pectoral muscular twitching: a rare manifestation of spontaneous twiddler syndrome[J]. Journal of Geriatric Cardiology, 2017, 14(8): 531-532. DOI: 10.11909/j.issn.1671-5411.2017.08.007
Citation: Serdar Bozyel, Tolga Aksu, Tumer Erdem Guler, Kazım Serhan Ozcan, Mujdat Aktas. Pectoral muscular twitching: a rare manifestation of spontaneous twiddler syndrome[J]. Journal of Geriatric Cardiology, 2017, 14(8): 531-532. DOI: 10.11909/j.issn.1671-5411.2017.08.007

Pectoral muscular twitching: a rare manifestation of spontaneous twiddler syndrome

  • The twiddler syndrome is an uncommon cause of pacemaker malfunction, in which twisting or rotating of the device in its pocket results in lead retraction or coiling and subsequent malfunction of an implanted devices such as a pacemaker, an implantable cardioverter– de?brillator (ICD), cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT)1,2 This report describes a rare case of twiddler syndrome after implantation of a ICD that manifested with pectoral muscular twitching.
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