Reel Syndrome--A Variety of Twiddler's Syndrome

J Assoc Physicians India. 2015 Jan;63(1):65-7.

Abstract

Reel syndrome is an uncommon condition in which a patient's subconscious, inadvertent, or deliberate external manipulation of their cardiac pacemaker results in the movement of the transducer wires along its transverse axis. We report a clinical case of a 67 year old lady with permanent pacemaker presenting with pacemaker malfunction and was detected with reel syndrome.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Electrodes, Implanted*
  • Equipment Failure*
  • Female
  • Foreign-Body Migration / diagnostic imaging
  • Foreign-Body Migration / etiology*
  • Humans
  • Pacemaker, Artificial*
  • Radiography
  • Syndrome