Reverberatory artifact from a pacemaker
by Nanda Navin C

Comprehensive Textbook of Echocardiography

by Navin C Nanda
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This video clip showing two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography. Parasternal long-axis view. Lower arrowhead shows a linear echo in the left atrium resembling a line or pacemaker but this patient does not have any catheter or pacemaker in the left atrium. This linear echo is a reverberatory artifact from a pacemaker located in the right ventricle (RV, upper arrowhead).

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