Significant Lead Migration of a Subcutaneous Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator in a Pediatric Patient

Abstract

Since its introduction, the subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (S-ICD) has provided the benefit of reduced mortality from ventricular tachyarrythmias without the associated short- and long-term morbidity of transvenous or epicardial implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) leads. As its name implies, the S-ICD system is implanted in its entirety, including device and lead, just under the skin beginning along the anterior axillary line, with its lead tunneled to the left parasternum and then from the xiphoid to the manubrium-sternal junction. Dislocation of the lead due to migration of the parasternal lead has been described in a minority of patients. Here, we describe an unusual case of a significant lead migration in a pediatric patient.