Right-Sided Pneumothorax After Cardioverter-Defibrillator Implantation

A 27-year-old woman was hospitalised after cardiopulmonary resuscitation for an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. After post-arrest intensive care leading to a favourable recovery, a dual-chamber implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) was inserted on day 5 for long Q-T syndrome. This was well tolerated until day 6 when dyspnoea and pleuritic pain ensued. A chest X-ray (Figure 1A) showed the new left-sided ICD and a contralateral...