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case_images: Pacemaker pocket site with developing erythema around surgical scar.
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case_images: A 59-year-old woman with a history of recent placement of a dual-chamber permanent pacemaker (PPM) due to sick sinus syndrome was admitted to the hospital due to erythema, warmth, and fluctuance over the PPM site (Figure 1).
case_images: Pacemaker pocket site with purulence expression from the surgical scar.
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case_images: Physical examination on admission revealed a nondistressed woman, and her chest showed erythema overlying the PPM site with pain to palpation, fluctuance, and evidence of pus from surgical scar (Figure 2).
case_images: Pacemaker pocket site 2 months after the removal of pacemaker and antibiotic therapy.
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case_images: The patient was seen at 2 months and completed therapy at 4 months with proper healing of the PPM pocket site (Figure 3).