[Cardiac pacemaker perforation of the transverse colon in the infected pacemaker system].

While perforations of pacemakers outside due to infection or pressure necrosis are no rarity on account of the constantly rising number of patients, perforations into the abdominal cavity are rarely observed. All infectious complications make great demands on the surgical therapy and often demand manifold correction operations. It is reported on the case of a pacemaker perforation into the transverse colon. Our therapeutic principles in infections and perforations of pacemakers are shortly explained.