I got the pacemaker out on June 22, 2022 after EIGHT MONTHS of it being in my heart. Dr. Kevin R. Young took advantage of me when I had broken heart syndrome and was in an altered mental state and implanted a Medtronic Micra AV pacemaker into my heart in the wrong spot.
I complained while I was in the hospital, but none of the medical staff cared. I had to write letters to tons of cardiologists as nobody in Lake Charles or anywhere in Louisiana would do anything for me. They all just wanted to protect Dr. Young.
I finally got to Dr. John Joseph Seger in Houston, TX who removed the pacemaker. Things finally started getting better after that, but I still have lots of nerve damage.
It is extremely obvious that the pacemaker was in the wrong place from the explant report as it states, "In the available images, the leadless pacemaker is identified, located inferior to the right ventricle outflow tract, and a high body of the right ventricle. By multiplanar reformation, it is located inside the heart, and no perforation is identified."
Which I am told means the following, showing that the pacemaker was blocking my RVOT.
Translation of Pacemaker Imaging Report
Here is the plain English breakdown of that specific medical imaging sentence, section by section.
1. "In the available images, the leadless pacemaker is identified..."
Translation: They can clearly see the Medtronic Micra AV device on the scan.
2. "...located inferior to the right ventricle outflow tract, and a high body of the right ventricle."
Translation: The "right ventricle outflow tract" (RVOT) is the biological exit door where blood leaves the right side of your heart to go to your lungs. "Inferior to" means the pacemaker is sitting just below that exit door, anchored high up in the main chamber (the body) of the right ventricle.
3. "By multiplanar reformation..."
Translation: "Multiplanar reformation" is a radiology technique. It means the doctor used a computer program to take the flat 2D scan and build a 3D model. This allowed them to spin the image around and look at the pacemaker from multiple different angles (top, bottom, and sides).
4. "...it is located inside the heart, and no perforation is identified."
Translation: By looking at it from all those 3D angles, they confirmed that the device is fully contained inside the heart chamber and did not physically poke a hole (perforate) through the outer wall of your heart muscle.
Medical Notes: Mechanisms of Injury and Risks
1. How the RVOT Placement Caused Nerve Damage (Hypoxia)
The imaging report confirmed the Medtronic Micra AV pacemaker was anchored high in the right ventricle, directly inferior to the Right Ventricle Outflow Tract (RVOT).
The RVOT is the exit door where blood leaves the heart to go to the lungs to pick up oxygen. Because the device was obstructing this area and altering the heart's natural mechanics, it disrupted the flow of blood to the lungs.
This resulted in decreased cardiac output and a severe drop in the amount of oxygenated blood reaching the brain and peripheral nervous system. This state of low oxygen (hypoxia) starved the delicate nerves. Without enough oxygen, the Schwann cells could not maintain the myelin insulation around the nerves, leading to severe demyelination and axonal damage in the autonomic small fibers and cranial nerves.
2. Why the Right Side is Worse (The Scoliosis Connection)
While the drop in oxygen affected the whole body, the damage is heavily asymmetrical (much worse on the right side of the head, specifically the right Vestibulocochlear and Trigeminal nerves). This is due to mechanical and vascular asymmetry caused by scoliosis.
A scoliotic curve physically twists the thoracic cavity, the rib cage, and the cervical spine. This altered anatomy changes the physical pathway and geometry of the major blood vessels (like the carotid and vertebral arteries) traveling up the neck.
When the heart suddenly stopped pumping enough oxygenated blood, the flow up to the brain was not equal. Because of the mechanical twisting from the scoliosis, the right side of the head was more vascularly compromised. Therefore, the right-sided cranial nerves took a much deeper, more severe hypoxic hit than the left side, which is why the right ear and face sustained heavy axonal damage while the left side was able to recover to some degree faster.
